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Hi, I am an Under Graduate student at IIT Bombay,. Recently one of my friends, a PhD student at IITB, conducted a gender bias and sexual abuse survey across IITs; I was helping her filter DATA amongst some other friends; while I was going through the responses received from IIT Kanpur I found some very disturbing facts, many people had anonymously commented about how IIT Kanpur a rape of a first year UG student by another first-year UG student went away and was suppressed without any action being taken. Upon further investigation over numerous days, I had excellent sources within IITK, People from my Debating circles, My batchmates and juniors whom I went to coaching with, the people from IIT Kanpur I met during my Internships, sources from Their journalistic body "vox Populi", an IIT Kanpur employee from their Women Cell, a Counsellor from their counselling services.
And here are my findings.
Late night at about 11:30 PM on the 29th of April, A UG22 student of the Department of Mathematics and Scientific Computing Under the influence of Alcohol had Sexually Assaulted a UG22 female student in the fresher's hostel of IIT Kanpur Hall 13; the girl was heard shouting and screaming, People present in the Wing at that point confirmed that the girl was shouting "No,No,No. I will murder you (name of the offender) I will murder you", She was drinking in his room with a friend of hers, When the friend started to butt in and stop her from drinking any further The offender in question drove her out of the room and the girl feeling uncomfortable left the hostel, Even under the influence of alcohol the victim realized that something terribly wrong is going on when the offender locked the door, at that point she messaged and gave a call to one of her friends in HALL 13 to come and take her away from the room. By the time the friend arrived, they had to break the door open, and the offender was at the other side and trying to keep them from entering, when the door was opened both of them were naked, the girl was shouting and screaming, and the offender fled. A few hours later, the hall was raided, numerous bottles of alcohol were found in the offender's room and wing, and the girl was unconscious and taken away in an ambulance to regency hospital Kanpur. I received many anecdotes that the offender had even smashed an empty bottle of alcohol on her. However, many people denied or were ignorant about it; my source from the woman's cell refused to comment on this on the grounds of privilege when I asked about this so there might be some degree of truth to it. the girl remained unconscious for 18 to 21 hours after the incident; this has been confirmed by her friends who went to pay her a visit to the hospital.
The girl wanted to push forward a complaint but was informed by the gender cell that if she pushed forward a complaint, the Women Cell would have to Inform her parents about the incident, The girl is from a very backward and orthodox family from Kanpur itself and feared if her parents found out about this they would withdraw her from the college. I personally find this infuriating, the girl an adult should have a say in whether or not she wants her parents to know about it or not but As per the IIT Kanpur directive, they have to inform her parents; where does privilege disappear now?
The journalistic body of IIT Kanpur recently released the following article regarding the prohibition of Girls from entering hall 13 (https://voxiitk.com/yeh-hall-ab-13-na-raha/) in which they did not even bring forward the incident in question the real reason behind the action taken by the warden, on their Instagram post a ug22 student made a comment calling out their faulty journalistic practices; this student received a long message from one of the editors (a 3rd-year student) asking rather persuading him to delete the comment. However, the student rejected his request.
Also due to delayed semesters because of the postponement of JEE advanced 2022, and the mismatch of the institute calendrer HALL 13 was without warden during this period, Therefore the ex-warden was unable to take any action, My source from the Counselling service of IIT kanpur confirms that the warden had placed forward a plea to the head of counselling services and The Dean of Student Affairs, However the Dean of Student Affairs refrained from taking any action against him, in the time gap between a temporary extension to the Ex-Hall 13 warden was granted and the incedent, The wardens of Hall 4 and The warden of Hall 6 had banned the perpetrator from entering entering Hall 4(freshers,Mtech,phd girls hostel) and Hall 6(Senior UG girls hostel), this was intimidated to the Hall 13 hall office and The perpetrator, and the counselling services only, most students were unaware of this,during the same time gap numerous students who were friends of the perpetrator peddled the following incidents.
"It was consensual, and the girl had resurfaced PTSD from her past".
"It was consensual, and the girl has ADHD and therefore acted out the way she did".
"The girl was behind his money and acted out to get money out of him".
to his defense, he added, "If I had done something, then why hasn't action been taken against me? It should have been by now."
students also add that his father is a supreme court lawyer and that he has some sort of an influence, also that he might have suppressed the girl from pushing forward any complaints.
On the 20th of May, the Hall warden sent the following mail
More on the perpetrator.
This wasn't the first time he had been saved from SSAC(IIT Kanpur's disciplinary body),
Earlier, he was caught for academic dishonesty during the Lab examination and End-semester examination of ESC112; students have informed me that he distributed answers to more than 200 students during both examinations via Whatsapp. He along with 9 other students, were accused of such, and their end-semester grade sheets were withheld till SSAC could take a decision on it; again he was let go along with the 9 other students without an SSAC hearing which resulted in him getting the highest spi in his branch and amongst the top 5 of his batch.
He has been caught numerous times drinking in the Academic area late at night without any repercussions. his expulsion from Hostel 13 was the first instance of any action being taken against him, and even that was taken by the warden and not the Dean of Student Affairs or SSAC. As per the students, For some reason, the dean of student affairs has been protecting him.
numerous students had also anonymously mailed the Dean and the Director with proof, but both of them either did not reply and even when they did, the reply was along the lines of "No anonymous complaints are considered"
Now the reason why IIT Kanpur refuses to take any action on such incidences, IIT Kanpur lost out on the chance of being awarded the Institute of eminence in 2017 due to the nefarious ousting of the Ragging incidents and raging culture of IIT Kanpur due to this IIT Kanpur loses out on several crores of fundings, this incident was during the time of the decision of the NIRF rankings, and IIT Kanpur suppressed this incident because this will most definitely affect their NIRF rankings.
Seniors and alumni of IIT Kanpur have confirmed that IIT Kanpur is nefarious in suppressing incidents that might affect them negatively; IIT Kanpur also reduced the public coverage of a PHD Student suicide in September before the starting of the JOSSA counselling to ensure that the cutoffs did not fall low because of students hesitancy to come to a college where suicide is prominent.
what good comes out of such an administration, I do not know. However, this is a very serious case and should have serious repercussions, Hall's expulsion does little to that extent; termination would be a sweet deal for such an atrocity.
While since I was not there at IIT Kanpur and do not know exactly the ground reality, I have only the numerous anecdotes of endless students. I post it here with the hopes that more light is shed on this occurrence and a real investigation is conducted. I feel ashamed to call these institutes the principle of education while the ground reality of all old IIT's is the same.
The recent suicide at IITB was also manipulated by the media, imagine creating a review group within your own institute to point out their errors, and what do they do, Blackface the student, reveal his academics, where is the privilege now where is the accountability the transparency and what not. I am ashamed of what has come of this country.
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