Gujarat: Peeping Tom nabbed inside VNSGU

SURAT: In a shocking incident, a 19-year-old student of a reputed engineering college was caught clicking photos of girls in students’ washroom of bioscience department of Veer Narmad South Gujarat University (VNSGU) on Monday.
The student refuted the allegations but submitted a written apology later to VNSGU registrar when the girls demanded strict action. Students and some employees of the department alleged that he visited had department in past as well and went to toilet, but the university officials did not take any action until Tuesday evening.
Meanwhile, the issue came to knowledge of a senate member Manish Kapadiya who asked one of the girl student to call 181 Abhayam helpline. Later, police took the girls to Umra police station.
Police registered an offence of sexual harassment against the student. Police are collecting evidences against him and he is likely to get arrested.
"It was a shocking case. The wall between girls and boys washroom has a small gap at the top and the suspect man was taking video or photos of the girls from there. When one of the girls noticed this, she informed others in toilet and before they could nab him, he fled," said Kapadiya.
Later, the girls informed staff and other students in the department and they chased and nabbed the student. He was brought back to the department where he denied taking videos or photos. He was later taken to office of Rajendra Patel, in-charge registrar, where the girls demanded strict action.
"We did not report the case to police soon after the incident happened since the student was denying taking any photo. We checked his phone but nothing suspicious was found. He was taken to registrar office," said M N Reddy, head of bioscience department.
Despite several attempts Shivendra Gupta, vice chancellor of VNSGU and registrar Rajendra Patel were not available for comments.
"We have lodged an offence against the student and his mobile phone has been seized. We found some porn videos in the phone but there were no videos or photos of girls. It is suspected that he has locked the photos in some hidden folder," said an officer of Umra police station.
Police will send the phone to FSL for forensic examination and attempt to recover the videos even if it was deleted by him.