Protesting against the police action, the National Students Union of India (NSUI) and the Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad (ABVP) staged demonstrations in New Delhi.
The UP governor Ram Naik said a committee, headed by the chief secretary, was constituted to look into the protest over an alleged harassment to a student.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi and BJP chief Amit Shah spoke to the chief minister, while Union minister Nitin Gadkari said in New Delhi an inquiry into the violence is underway.
The UP government removed three additional city magistrates of Varanasi and two police officers on Monday.
The incident started on Thursday, after three men riding a motorbike molested a student of Fine Arts course of the Mahila Mahavidyala of the BHU while she was returning to her hostel
The BHU professor also defended the students’ right to demand better security. “On the one hand, PM Narenda Modi talks of empowering women, while on the other women demanding their rights are being oppressed. The students were only asking for security, weren’t they?” she said.
The warden’s response angered the students who sat on a protest at the main gate at midnight. The students have alleged they have to face eve-teasers on the campus regularly and the varsity administration was not taking any action to stop the miscreants.
An FIR has been filed against unidentified policemen in connection with the lathicharge on Saturday night. A press release from Varanasi’s district information office said three additional city magistrates, Manoj Kumar Singh, Sushil Kumar Gaund and Jagdamma Prasad Singh, have been removed.
Protesting against the police action, the National Students Union of India (NSUI) and the Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad (ABVP) staged demonstrations in New Delhi.
