Two Staffers Arrested in Alleged Job-Lure Rape on Jabalpur University Campus

Overview

• Adhartal police arrested upper division clerk Durga Shankar Singerha, 58, and peon Mukesh Sen, 42, in connection with the alleged assault at Jawaharlal Nehru Agricultural University.
• Investigators said the woman reached out about a contractual job after seeing vacancy information online and was repeatedly assured of recruitment by the clerk.
• Police state the clerk took her to the peon’s quarters in the Krishi Nagar Colony area of the campus, where the peon allegedly bolted the door from outside and the clerk raped her.
• The accused allegedly dropped her outside the campus and threatened her with defamation while promising a job if she stayed silent, according to the complaint.
• Both men were produced in court and remanded to judicial custody, and police say further investigation is underway.