Bengaluru engineering student arrested for raping senior on campus

Bengaluru police have arrested a 21-year-old student of an engineering college in south Bengaluru for allegedly raping a senior female student on the campus.

The accused has been identified as Jeevan Gowda, a fifth-semester student at a private college in Basavanagudi. According to a senior police officer, the girl is a year senior to the accused, and the two had known each other for the past three months.

According to the FIR, the alleged incident took place on October 10 during lunch break inside the men’s washroom in the college.