Dharamshala:
Three female students and a professor have been charged with ragging and sexual assault after a second-year student died in a college in Himachal Pradesh’s Dharamshala, the police said.
The student recorded a mobile video detailing her ordeal before she died. She spoke about how the professor touched her inappropriately and several other instances of mental and sexual harassment.
The father of the second-year student of Dharamshala’s Government Degree College, in a police complaint alleged that on September 18, three female students identified as Harshita, Akriti, and Komolika allegedly assaulted his daughter in an act of brutal ragging and threatened her to keep her silence.
The complaint also named Ashok Kumar, a professor in the college, as one of the accused.
The father of the student who died said his daughter suffered from high stress due to the professor’s alleged indecent behaviour and mental harassment. This led to her health deteriorating continuously, the complaint said.
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