Udupi washroom video: NCW member Khushbu Sundar visits college

Team Udayavani, Jul 27, 2023, 10:10 AM IST

Udupi: National Commission for Women (NCW) member Khushbu Sundar on Thursday, July 27 visited the college where three girl students allegedly recorded a video of their fellow female student in a college washroom.

Earlier Khushbu Sundar had termed the filming incident “extremely concerning” and said she is heading to Udupi to look into the issue.

The visit came a day after FIR was registered against three girl students at Malpe police station in Udupi.

The college administration has also been named in the FIR, which has been filed under IPC sections 509 (word, gesture or act intended to insult the modesty of a woman), 204 (destruction of any document or electronic record), 175 (omitting to produce document or electronic record), and 34 (criminal act is done by several persons in furtherance of the common intention) as well as 66(e) of the IT Act (knowingly captures, publishes or transmits the image of a private area of any person without his or her consent), sources said.

A police statement said two separate suo motu cases have been registered regarding the video recording in the washroom of the college.

A case of recording the private video of a female student and deleting it later is registered against three female students and the college administration. Police have charged them with failure to produce the details and evidence relating to the incident that could spoil the reputation of the victim.

A morphed video of the incident was allegedly uploaded on a Kannada YouTube channel. An individual had allegedly posted the same on his Twitter account as well. A case for causing communal enmity and spoiling social harmony has also been registered in this regard, the statement said.

The three girl students were suspended from the college on the accusation of filming the video in the restroom of the college recently. The issue has created a flutter in political circles, with the BJP announcing a state-wide protest on Thursday demanding the arrest of the three students involved in the filming of a girl, pointing out that the victim and the accused girls are from two different religious communities.