Summary:
Vrushali Sonar, a post graduate student, informed, "Security personnel need to be smarter. "Another student, Rupali Kulkarni, added, "Many students have inhibitions about approaching the police fearing what the reaction would be. They kept connecting with the girl till they were informed that this was a part of a demonstration. Guards appointed at the girls hostel refused to help a student in distress outside the hostel premises citing orders that they were to stay at their allotted spots." Following a student's suicide last month and two stalking related complaints from girl students, the authorities of the Savitribai Phule Pune University SPPU ) have initiated law awareness and confidence building sessions in the campus..