DU Student Gang Raped even as New Top Cop Vows to Make City Safe for Female
Students
A 19-year old student of the University was allegedly gang raped by an autorickshaw
driver and 3 accomplices on November 3, although the incident was reported to the
police on November 7. The girl, a correspondence student and a resident of East
Delhi’s Mandavali village, also works at a call centre in Noida. She was waiting for
the call centre cab at 4 45 AM when the accused pulled her into an auto and took her
at knifepoint to the Pragati Maidan parking lot, where they took turns raping her. They
threatened to kill her if she resisted, finally dumping her off near her residence. One of
the accused, Rambir, is in police custody while the others are still absconding.
What’s more shocking is that this heinous incident has come to light the day after BK
Gupta took over from YS Dadwal as the new police commissioner of Delhi and one of
the first things on his agenda was making the city safer for students. He had said “I have
given the officers concerned two days to analyse the precise constitution and deployment
of our present force vis-à-vis male and female officers. Our aim is to set up help desks
especially for women students at north campus at the earliest”. Similar desks at South
Campus and off-campus colleges are also planned. Gupta came up with the idea after
delivering a lecture at DU’s Jesus and Mary College recently. “During interaction, one
of the students asked me why there weren’t many women police officers deployed at
colleges even when it was amply clear that female students faced harassment. That set me
thinking,” Gupta mentioned. This is the first of many planned initiatives aimed at making
the Delhi Police a woman friendly force. Special Help Desks for women’s complaints are
also being set up at 180 police stations.
Prateek Arora
prateek@dubeat.com

A 19-year old student of the University was allegedly gang raped by an autorickshaw

driver and 3 accomplices on November 3, although the incident was reported to the

police on November 7. The girl, a correspondence student and a resident of East

Delhi’s Mandavali village, also works at a call centre in Noida. She was waiting for

the call centre cab at 4 45 AM when the accused pulled her into an auto and took her

at knifepoint to the Pragati Maidan parking lot, where they took turns raping her. They

threatened to kill her if she resisted, finally dumping her off near her residence. One of

the accused, Rambir, is in police custody while the others are still absconding.

What’s more shocking is that this heinous incident has come to light the day after BK

Gupta took over from YS Dadwal as the new police commissioner of Delhi and one of

the first things on his agenda was making the city safer for students. He had said “I have

given the officers concerned two days to analyse the precise constitution and deployment

of our present force vis-à-vis male and female officers. Our aim is to set up help desks

especially for women students at north campus at the earliest”. Similar desks at South

Campus and off-campus colleges are also planned. Gupta came up with the idea after

delivering a lecture at DU’s Jesus and Mary College recently. “During interaction, one

of the students asked me why there weren’t many women police officers deployed at

colleges even when it was amply clear that female students faced harassment. That set me

thinking,” Gupta mentioned. This is the first of many planned initiatives aimed at making

the Delhi Police a woman friendly force. Special Help Desks for women’s complaints are

also being set up at 180 police stations.

Prateek Arora

prateek@dubeat.com