Overview
- The FIR alleges the assault occurred on October 10 on a private college campus in South Bengaluru and the survivor filed her complaint on October 15 under Section 64 of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita.
- Investigators identified the accused as 21-year-old Jeevan Gowda, a junior at the college, who was arrested by Hanumanthanagar police and remanded to judicial custody after a crime-scene reconstruction.
- According to the complaint, the accused called the senior repeatedly during lunch, tried to kiss her near the architecture block, dragged her into a men’s washroom on the sixth floor, and later phoned asking if she “needed a pill.”
- Police say the accused maintains the encounter was consensual, while the survivor alleges forcible rape, and the probe is examining physical and digital traces.
- Opposition leaders, including R. Ashoka of the BJP, have criticized the state’s handling of women’s safety and sought National Commission for Women attention to the case.