Agra: Lucknow girl strips in public demanding arrest of IIT student who raped her, taken to mental asylum

CNN Central News & Network–ITDC India Epress/ITDC News Bhopal: Agra witnessed an unfortunate development when a 20-year-old engineering student from Lucknow reportedly stripped in public demanding the arrest of the man who allegedly raped her. The accused, 22, is an MTech student at the Jammu campus of the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), reports said.

The woman is pursuing BTech as an engineering student at a college affiliated with a central university in Agra. She decided to go ahead with the extreme form of protest as the accused was not arrested by the police even after 14 days, news reports said.

Following her decision to strip in public, the young woman was taken to a mental asylum and placed under observation for three days, Indian Express said in a report. However, the IIT student, who hails from UP’s Ghazipurr, was arrested on Tuesday — 17 days after the woman filed a complaint, the daily added.