Karnataka: BJP members stage protest over Udupi washroom video case

On Friday, July 27, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) members within the state of Karnataka launched a large protest in opposition to the three girls college students of a personal paramedical faculty in Udupi for filming fellow college students inside a washroom utilizing cellphones. The BJP members and employees held placards and posters and raised slogans in opposition to the Congress authorities within the state as they protested on the streets of Udupi.

While the BJP Mahila Morcha and different members took the protests to the Udupi streets, the employees of BJP Yuva Morcha staged a protest exterior Karnataka Home Minister G Parameshwara’s residence, demanding motion in opposition to the accused Muslim girls within the case.

#WATCH | Udupi, Karnataka | BJP leaders and employees maintain a protest in opposition to the Udupi video Incident. pic.twitter.com/jyovIYNEwY

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On July 18, the three Muslim college students recorded a video of their classmate within the Netra Jyoti College, Udupi when she was within the washroom. The incident got here to gentle when the sufferer Hindu scholar, informed her associates concerning the incident, who then knowledgeable the school administration.

Reportedly, the Udupi district police filed FIR within the case on July 26 in opposition to the Muslim college students who clandestinely recorded non-public video of Hindu college students within the washroom and uploaded it on social media. The faculty administration had earlier taken the cognizance of the occasion and had performed an inquiry into the matter. The administration had additionally concluded that the video had been deleted, closing the case.

However, attributable to public outrage, a suo moto case had been registered on the Malpe Police Station within the Udupi district. A case has been filed in opposition to three Muslim college students named Alimatul Shaifa, Shabanaz, and Alia, who had been accountable for creating the video, in addition to in opposition to the administration board of Netrajyoti College. They have been charged with proof destruction. The police have registered a number of circumstances below sections 509, 204, 175, and 34 of the Indian Penal Code.

Earlier, the BJP had condemned the incident and had criticized the Congress social gathering for displaying the ‘soft-corner’ for the accused women. “Three Muslim girls recorded a Hindu girl secretly when she was in the washroom. They then sent the video to several groups. A detailed probe must be ordered into the incident. The government is showing soft-corner on the three students. There is a big network behind this incident,” BJP state common secretary N Ravi Kumar had stated.

Also BJP chief and Udupi MLA Yashpal Suvarna had demanded authorized motion in opposition to the accused women. “It is not right to keep cameras in the washroom. This may be a blackmailing tactic. I will urge for suitable action against the three offenders. I will bring this to the notice of the chief minister and home minister… The motive of the Muslim girl students is causing suspicion. I doubt the work of Jihadi organizations behind this act,” he stated.

Meanwhile, the Udupi SP Akshay Machhindra claimed that there was no hidden digital camera within the washroom and no movies had been being shot. “There’s a lot of confusion as many people are sharing misinformation on social media. I am here to clarify that the video was not shared with anyone. Many have said that there was a hidden camera inside the restroom and videos were being shot. No such thing has come to our attention,” he was quoted as saying.

However, the opposite women from the school said that the Muslim girls who had been making movies of Hindu women have been doing this for over a yr months and have additionally shared the movies with Muslim boys.

“This incident was happening for the past 1 year. Post capturing in mobile the Muslim girls were exchanging the Mobile with their Muslim Male friends who were waiting in a car outside the college. The exchange of mobile was happening in the afternoon lunch hour. This was highlighted to the college management but they did not take any kind of action. It was on the 18th that the victim went to management and complained, but management did not take it seriously. We got to know on the 20th and immediately we sat on protest,” the lady was quoted as saying.

She additionally stated that the College Administrator, Abdul Khader took cognizance of the occasion and punished the ladies by giving them homework. As per the scholar, the administrator requested the Hindu women to not take it severely because the Muslim women had been filming them within the washroom as a “prank”.

The BJP earlier had additionally held a press meet in Bengaluru and had condemned the incident additional demanding probe within the matter. The BJP Mahila Morcha had additionally then referred to as for a statewide protest on July 27 demanding motion in opposition to the three college students.