The hostel warden confirmed that hidden cameras were fit in the washrooms for women at Andhra Pradesh's Seshadri Rao Gudlavalleru Engineering College (GEC), protesting students alleged. The agitating students reportedly made the claim after authorities maintained that no cameras were found in the hostel washrooms of the engineering college in Andhra Pradesh's Krishna district.
Nine complaints have been filed so far with the Gudlavalleru Police with eight students and a woman employee coming forward despite alleged attempts to hush up the incident. The students in their complaints mentioned that the hostel warden had personally verified and confirmed the presence of recording devices in the hostel washrooms.
The engineering college staff was "attacking" students involved in protests, they alleged. The agitating students accused officials of rushing the probe and trying to suppress the probe, The Hindu said in a report. Despite the Andhra government guaranteeing a probe in the presence of students, Seshadri Rao Gudlavalleru Engineering College management is forcibly vacating hostel rooms, the students alleged. Students are being shifted to Vijayawada, Gudivada and Avinagadda, they told the daily.
The discovery of hidden cameras in the hostel washrooms at an engineering college in Andhra Pradesh's Krishna district led to midnight protests by students who tried to assault the suspect. The alleged perpetrator, who wanted to sell the hidden cam visuals for money was identified and assaulted by other students before police moved him to safety, news reports said.
After the cameras were discovered, the students claimed that the final year student, with the help of another student of the same college, fit them to shoot private visuals of girls. The duo reportedly made money by selling visuals caught in the cameras.
Hundreds of such videos were captured and sold by the accused, news reports claimed the protestors as saying. As students gathered in front of the girls' hostel to hold the midnight protest, some students tried to manhandle the alleged accused, who was rescued by cops.