27-yr-old man arrested for molesting PhD student inside JNU campus

Delhi | Sunday | 23rd January, 2022

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New Delhi, Jan 23 (PTI) A 27-year-old man was arrested on Sunday for allegedly molesting a PhD student of Jawaharlal Nehru University inside the campus, police said.

The accused was drunk at the time of incident and has been identified as Akshay Dolai, they said.

A native of West Bengal, Dolai lived with his wife and children in south Delhi’s Munirka and worked at a mobile repairing shop at Bikaji Cama Place.

The accused was identified and caught after the footage from more than a thousand CCTV cameras in and around the JNU campus was analysed, police said, adding Dolai was arrested while he was entering his rented house.According to police, on the morning of January 17, the accused had a fight with his wife after which, she left for her maternal house.

An upset Dolai consumed alcohol in the evening and headed towards JNU on his scooter.Upon reaching the university, he saw three women entering the campus and followed them with "bad intentions".

However, the trio went inside their hostels, police said.After a while, he spotted the PhD student jogging inside the campus.