Samajwadi Student Leader Arrested Over Alleged Caste-Based Assault at BHU

Overview

• Varanasi police arrested Himanshu Yadav, president of the Samajwadi Chhatra Sabha’s BHU unit, on Thursday after a complaint accused him of assault at the university.
• Complainant Prashant Mishra says the attack happened in a classroom on Wednesday around 11:45 am after Yadav asked his caste and course, and he alleges slurs and death threats followed.
• Police registered an FIR under sections 115(2), 352 and 351(3) of the Bharatiya Nyaya Samhita, which is India’s new criminal code, and said further legal action is underway.
• Mishra’s complaint says departmental CCTV recorded the episode, a detail investigators can use to corroborate accounts of what occurred in the room.
• Campus reaction grew as ABVP condemned the incident and urged strict disciplinary steps, while the complainant requested protection from BHU to prevent retaliation.