Scuffle breaks out among ABVP AISA and BCM over student's molestation in BHU

Varanasi (UP), Nov 5 (PTI) A scuffle broke out between student members of the Akhil Bhartiya Vidhyarthi Parishad (ABVP), All India Students Association (AISA) and the Bhagat Singh Chatra Morcha (BCM) on Sunday forcing police to use light force, officials said.
    According to office bearers of the ABVP, their members were protesting to ensure justice for the female student of IIT-BHU who was molested earlier this week near the university's main gate. Members of AISA and the BCM reached there and started the scuffle, ABVP alleged.
    The office bearers of BCM denied the allegations and accused the ABVP of "being violent and unjust."
    Meanwhile, as arguments between the students escalated and turned into a scuffle, the police used light force to disperse them.
    Station House Officer (SHO) Shivakant Mishra said, "We used light force to disperse the students' group staging protest when a scuffle started."
    The SHO said that he has not received any formal complaint regarding the incident.
    Hundreds of BHU students had held a protest on Thursday over the alleged molestation of a female student on the campus on Wednesday night. According to the complainant, she had gone out of her hostel with a friend when three men on a motorcycle forcibly took her to a corner and gagged her near the Karman Baba temple.
    The accused then allegedly stripped the woman, took her pictures and recorded a video of the act. They let her go after about 15 minutes and took her phone number, the complaint stated.
    Based on the woman's complaint, an FIR has been registered under section 354 (assault or criminal force to a woman with intent to outrage her modesty) of the Indian Penal Code and provisions of the Information Technology Act at the Lanka police station, police said.

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