On the 24th of January, three female students of the Banaras Hindu University’s Hindi department were passed on lewd-comments by the boys of Birla-A hostel while going to their class in the afternoon. These female students, Shweta Sharma, Aastha Singh, Charvi Shandilya of the Faculty of Arts, were passing by the road adjacent to the hostel when this incident happened. When protested against sexist comments, girls faced more comments and sexual gestures from the boys. Sujeet Singh ‘Major’, one of the prime accused, told these girls not to pass from their ‘area’. The three female students, called Prof. DGA Khan, a former member of the Proctorial […]