Overview
- Deccan Chronicle reported police arrested assistant professors Lakshman Kumar and A. Shekhar Reddy after adding BNS Sections 63 and 68 following the student’s recorded statement in Odisha.
- The case began with an FIR last week against Lakshman Kumar under BNS Sections 75(1), 77, 79 and 351(2) read with 3(5), with police earlier indicating Reddy could be added based on the investigation.
- NSU’s Internal Committee found the student’s allegations credible, leading the registrar to file a complaint with Tirupati West police and the university to suspend the implicated faculty.
- Andhra Pradesh home minister Vangalapudi Anitha said the government ordered a thorough probe and that the Tirupati SP is personally supervising the investigation, with a team dispatched to Odisha.
- YSRCP MP Maddila Gurumoorthy and Congress MP Saptagiri Sankar Ulaka moved adjournment motions in Parliament seeking a debate and oversight, though one notice was rejected on Monday.