The FIR contains disturbing details, as it mentions threats, morphed obscene photographs, and an attempt to make the girl consume a pill against her will. (Photo: X/Yashadaaa)
Delhi Police have filed a gang rape case after an 18-year-old BTech student from South Asian University (SAU), located in South Delhi, alleged that four men sexually assaulted her inside the campus on Sunday evening.
The FIR contains disturbing details, as it mentions threats, morphed obscene photographs, and an attempt to make the girl consume a pill against her will.
According to the FIR, the student received threatening emails from an unknown address for two to three days before the assault. The sender demanded that she meet near the guest house of the SAU campus in Maidan Garhi at 11:27 pm on Saturday.
When she refused, she received another email the next day with obscene language, asking her to come outside her hostel block. The student showed the messages to her three friends, who checked the spot mentioned but found no one there.
“They [the friends] told me to relax and rest because I was stressed,” she said in her statement, as mentioned in the FIR.
Things escalated on Sunday when the girl received morphed obscene pictures of herself on WhatsApp and Telegram. The images were allegedly made using her profile picture.
The sender threatened to circulate these pictures among students if she did not appear at Gate Number 3. “The message read that if I don’t come to gate number 3, these photographs will be circulated among students,” the FIR states.
Unable to reach her friends, the victim informed another friend, but soon stopped answering calls due to distress.
The student said she took a less crowded path toward the university’s convocation center, where construction work was underway. She sat near the site where a security guard was present.
The guard reportedly called a middle-aged man, and soon two more men arrived. The four allegedly forced her into an empty room near the convocation hall and sexually assaulted her.
According to the FIR, one of the attackers tried to force a pill into her mouth. The victim claims she spat it out. PTI reported that the student later identified it as an abortion pill.
“Then he put his foot on my thigh, someone was holding my eyes, and someone came near my ear and was saying, I will kill your child, don't worry about him,” PTI quoted the FIR as saying.
The assailants reportedly ran away when they heard the voices of people exiting the nearby mess. Later, her friends found her disoriented near the campus theatre.
Deputy Commissioner of Police (South) Ankit Chauhan confirmed that a case has been registered based on the student’s statement.
“The case is being investigated with due sensitivity and priority,” he said. Police teams are working to identify and apprehend the four suspects mentioned in the FIR.
The FIR also accuses the university administration of mishandling the situation. The student claimed that even after a doctor highlighted the seriousness of her condition, the hostel in-charge dismissed her account and instead blamed the female students.
Friends advised her to contact the police, but the hostel in charge allegedly told her to “take a bath and change clothes.”
The student also alleged that officials prevented her from contacting her mother or showing her injuries through a video call.
“The administration was not taking (me) seriously and not allowing (me) to involve any outsider. I wanted to video call my mother and show her the bruises but the hostel-in-charge and a guard were covering me,” she said.
