Bengaluru engineering student rapes senior in washroom

A female student of a private engineering college was allegedly raped by her junior inside the men’s washroom on the campus, the police said on Friday.

The 21-year-old accused, a fifth-semester student, was known to the victim, who is in the seventh semester at the same college. The accused has been arrested on charges of rape and produced before a court, which remanded him to judicial custody, the police added.

In her complaint, the woman stated that the incident took place on October 10. During the lunch break, the accused allegedly called her multiple times, asking her to meet him near the architecture block on the seventh floor.

When she met him there, he “forcibly kissed her”. She attempted to leave in a lift, he followed her to the sixth floor, where he allegedly pulled her into the men’s washroom, locked the door and raped her, she alleged.

During the assault, the accused allegedly took away her phone when one of her friends tried to call her, she alleged in her complaint. After the incident, the woman said she confided in her friends, who encouraged her to inform her parents. Later, the accused allegedly called her, asking if she needed a pill.

She narrated her ordeal to her parents, following which a complaint was filed at the Hanumanthanagar police station on October 15. The case has been registered under Section 64 (rape) of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, the police said.