Overview

• Police identified the accused as 21-year-old Sayyed Rahim Adnan Ali and arrested him in Bilaspur after a complaint from the institute.
• An FIR cites Section 352 of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita and Information Technology Act provisions including 66(D) and 66(G).
• An internal, women-led committee formed on October 6 searched his hostel room, seized his phone, laptop and pen drives, and the institute expelled him.
• Investigators say roughly 36 women were targeted, and media reports cite more than 1,000 files recovered from his devices.
• Forensic analysis of the seized electronics is underway to verify AI use, and a reported confession appears in some coverage but is not uniformly corroborated.