Dumka, Aug 8: Four tribal girl students of Santhal Pargana Women’s College were arrested and forwarded to jail after they were found guilty of clicking an obscene picture of a fellow girl student and circulating the same in the social media.
The arrested girls have been identified as Sonamuni Murmu, Anjula Murmu, Bhawani Soren and Bebi Besra. The warden of the hostel and another student has been kept at the police station for interrogation.
After the incident came into light the Sido Kankhu Murmu University too constituted a team which inquired into the incident from the care taker warden Anju Murmu, Professor Anjula Murmu and Professor Hanif in the entire issue. On the basis of the report of the university action would be taken on the teachers and other guilty officials of the college. The arrested girls were in the late evening presented in the court of ACJM Sanjay Dubey who forwarded them to jail.
The other girls at the hostel said that 10 days ago a mobile of one of the student was stolen and few days later the victim girl was spotted allegedly with the same mobile after which the girl was called to hostel where the four accused made her go naked and in the meanwhile on of the girls clicked a photo and circulated the same on the social media.
Dumka SP Mayur Patel said that after the statement was recorded of the girl at the Women’s Police Station the four accused were sent to jail. He said that further action would also be initiated as more details would be revealed during the probe.
The police has registered the FIR against the four girls under section 341,342,323,325,504, 509, 34 and section 67 of the IT Act.