Ragged DU student waits for 33 days after filing plaint
1 Jun 2016 6:08 AM IST
It is a myth if someone says that registering a complaint at a police station or approaching the authorities such as HRD ministry, Vice-Chancellor, Bar Council of India, to name a few, is just a doorstep away. It took more than 33 days for a 28-year-old law student of Delhi University to get a case registered against his senior who was harassing him for being a ‘dalit’.
Vikas Gautam, the victim, who is a first year student of the Faculty of Law College and is a resident of South-east Delhi’s New friends Colony got admission in the college through quota. He got admission in 2014, but was unable to pass all the exams. In the entrance test, he got 333 marks and the category rank was 150. As a result, he got admission using his reservation.
Speaking to Millennium Post, Gautam, who wants to become a social activist narrated the ordeal and said: “Since last year, my seniors who are now in the third year of the course have started harassing me and abuse me for being a ‘dalit’. One Tushar Duneja was one of them who was continuously harassing me. In the recent past, he had used Facebook to defame and abuse me and my family with caste-based anti-community words like—Chammar and Chudas.”
Initially on April 25, he had given a complaint at New Friends Colony police station but Gautam claims that his complaint was not received. Later, he went to the senior police officials including the Commissioner, joint Commissioner and the deputy commissioner of police.
After which the SHO of New Friends Colony police station had asked him to file a complaint at Maurice Nagar police station. On Saturday, a case under the Section 3 SCH Castes and the SCH Tribes (Prevention of Atrocities) Act, 1989 has been registered against Duneja.
He further told Millennium Post that he wrote e-mails and posted letters to the HRD Ministry, Bar Council of India and other authorities but to no avail. When he approached the Vice-Chancellor after the complaint was given to police, a committee has been formed to probe the matter.
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