India: BHU Tried To Hush Up The Gangrape Of A Male Student On Campus Last Year

perplexedm · 2017-10-05T12:09:24+00:00

Currently, there is a big hue and cry going on because early last month, BHU had asked a woman student to leave the girls' hostel, accusing her for showing "homosexual tendencies", the use of such a regressive phrase proving its deeply entrenched homophobia. It was also reported that the 'accused' was asked to have her "disease" treated.

However, in the case of the gangrape of the man, the institution of higher education demonstrated a shockingly prejudiced mindset.

Men cannot be raped, as per current laws in India.

http://www.deccanchronicle.com/nation/crime/240816/bhu-male-student-gang-raped-by-five-varsity-police-drag-their-feet.html

in August 2016, the victim, a Masters' degree student of Hindi, was allegedly forced to consume alcohol by five men, including an employee of BHU, and abducted in a car. For the next few hours, the kidnappers took turn to rape him repeatedly in the vehicle, as it was driven around the campus unchallenged by the security, including the patrolling vehicle of the proctorial board.

As if this ordeal wasn't horrific enough, when the victim was finally dumped on an open ground near the agriculture department, his calls to 100 remained unheeded. The police took four days to respond to the case, which, according to the victims' friends, the university authorities tried to suppress, by urging the victim not to file a formal complaint.

When lesbian girl is asked to leave college hostel there is an uproar, but when a man is brutally raped, no one hears much about it.

Title	India: BHU Tried To Hush Up The Gangrape Of A Male Student On Campus Last Year
Author	perplexedm
Upvotes	15
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Date	October 5, 2017 12:07 PM UTC (8 years ago)
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