Drunk men harass woman scholar in Delhi University

NEW DELHI: A woman research scholar of the University of Delhi was harassed by a group of inebriated men, who were allegedly consuming alcohol on its arts faculty

NEW DELHI: A woman research scholar of the University of Delhi was harassed by a group of inebriated men, who were allegedly consuming alcohol on its arts faculty campus, police said on Sunday.

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The incident took place around 4.30pm on Thursday when the woman, who is pursuing PhD at the Department of Hindi in DU, was sitting outside the canteen that is located inside the Arts Faculty and spotted the men consuming alcohol openly.

“Suddenly, they approached the woman, trying to strike a conversation. When she did not show any interest, they collected some rainwater in a glass and spilled it on her. When she objected, they started misbehaving with her,” a police official said.

In her complaint, the woman alleged, though the security guards in the Arts Faculty were nowhere to be seen, the canteen owner tried to intervene and stop the men, but failed.

The group then turned vulgar and started abusing her. The woman called up the police control room, but by the time the officers arrived, the men fled the scene in a car, whose number the complainant had noted, the official said.

The police later registered a case under IPC Section 509, the official said .“We have zeroed in on the group and the accused will be arrested soon,” the official said.