Jabalpur University Clerk, Peon Held After Alleged Rape of Job Seeker on Campus

Overview

• A 22-year-old woman reported that an upper division clerk at Jawaharlal Nehru Agricultural University raped her after calling her to campus on the promise of an interview.
• According to police citing her complaint, the clerk allegedly took her to a peon’s on-campus quarters in Krishi Nagar Colony, where the peon bolted the door from outside.
• Investigators said the woman had found information about contractual vacancies online and reached a number for the vice-chancellor’s office, which connected her to the clerk.
• Police said the two men dropped her outside the university and threatened her with defamation if she spoke, telling her she would get a job if she stayed silent.
• Adhartal police registered a rape case, arrested clerk Durga Shankar Singerha, 58, and peon Mukesh Sen, 42, within hours, and a court remanded both to judicial custody as the probe continues.