In Bengaluru, a 21-year-old engineering student named Jeevan Gowda has been arrested by the police. He is accused of raping a fellow student inside their private engineering college. The young woman who made the complaint is a 21-year-old final-year student at the same institution.

The incident is said to have happened on October 10th. According to the official police complaint, the two students knew each other and were once classmates.

On the day of the alleged crime, Gowda called the young woman during the lunch break and asked her to meet him on the seventh floor of a college building. When she got there, he allegedly tried to kiss her without her consent.

She tried to leave using the elevator, but he reportedly followed her to the sixth floor. It was there that he allegedly dragged her into a men's toilet, locked the door from the inside, and sexually assaulted her.

The complaint also states that when her phone started ringing during the assault, he took it from her. This entire horrible event is believed to have happened in about twenty minutes in the afternoon.

After the incident, the young woman was extremely distressed and frightened. She first confided in two of her friends. Because she was scared, she did not report it to the police immediately. A few days later, she told her parents what had happened.

Her parents supported her and accompanied her to the police station, where she filed an official complaint on October 15th, five days after the assault. The police report also mentions that Gowda later called her and asked, "Do you need a pill?"

Once the complaint was filed, the police arrested Gowda. He has been charged with rape and is being held in jail while the investigation continues. The police visited the college to investigate the crime scene, but they face a major challenge: there are no CCTV security cameras on the floor where the attack happened. This makes gathering evidence more difficult. However, authorities are examining scientific clues and digital evidence, like phone records.

This case has also become a major political issue. The opposition party, the BJP, has strongly criticized the ruling Congress government in Karnataka. They claim that law and order has broken down and that women are no longer safe in the state.

The Leader of the Opposition has even asked the National Commission for Women to send a special team to investigate the situation. So far, the private engineering college where the incident took place has not made any public statement on the matter.