Campus assault cases at engineering colleges in Kolkata and Bengaluru

Two separate allegations of sexual assault involving students at private engineering colleges in India have led to arrests in Kolkata and Bengaluru, police said. In Kolkata a second-year student who had come to West Bengal to study filed a complaint on October 15 alleging a classmate drugged her drink, rendered her unconscious and raped her in a rented flat in the Anandapur area. In Bengaluru a 21-year-old junior student was arrested after a seventh-semester student accused him of raping her inside a campus men’s washroom on October 10; she filed a police complaint on October 15.

In Kolkata, the woman told Anandapur police that the accused visited her rented flat, mixed drugs into her drink and that she lost consciousness after consuming it, a senior officer said. The accused went into hiding for several days and was arrested when he returned to the Anandapur area. He was produced before a city court and remanded to police custody until October 22, the officer said. Police said they have opened an investigation and would reveal further details as inquiries progress.

In Bengaluru, Hanumanthanagar police said the survivor and the accused knew each other and had been classmates,...