A massive protest has broken
out at Chandigarh University in Punjab’s Mohali after rumours of private videos
of girl students being leaked on social media emerged on the internet. The girl
accused of leaking the video has been arrested and police have sent her phone
for forensic examination. It is unclear whether a video has actually emerged,
police and university authorities say that only one video, that of a girl having
sent to her boyfriend has been found.

Protests began Saturday night
and gates of one of the hostels of Chandigarh University have been kept locked.
In new videos emerging from the protest site, girls can be seen scaling the
gates and running out to join more protestors, according to an NDTV report.
Authorities have shut the gates outside Tagore Hostel to prevent a build-up of
protestors. Senior police personnel and members of the university
administration are in conversation with protestors and are trying to defuse
tension.

At the heart of the incident is
a rumour that a girl student shot and shared a video of other students bathing
at a hostel of Chandigarh University. This rumour was followed up by another
which claimed that some students have attempted suicide following the leak of
the video. Police and university authorities have thwarted both the rumours.

According to law enforcement, a
girl student of the hostel shared a personal video with a man from Himachal
Pradesh. The student has been taken into custody and a police case has been
filed. “Some 4,000 students live in the hostel. One of them has been arrested. Her
phone has been seized and the cybercrime unit is analysing it,” Punjab
Additional Director General of Police Gurpreet Deo told PTI.

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“The second part of the case is
a group of women students in the hostel who saw the accused doing some objectionable
acts. As the additional DG holding charge of women and child affairs, I was
deputed to interact with the students because many rumours are circulating
about this case,” the officer said, adding that the students were worried about
alleged circulation of the video on social media.