Student gang rape incident: Five students suspended from college
Sue moto case registered at Puttur women police station
Puttur: All the five students of a Vivekananda College who allegedly raped a student and circulated a gang rape video on social media were arrested on Wednesday. Following their arrest, all the five students were suspended from the college.
The incident came to light this week after a video of the act went viral.
The arrested have been identified as Gurunandan and Sunil of Puttur and Prajwal, Kishan and Prakhyath from Bantwal, all aged 19 years, police said.
They have been charged under IPC 341 (wrongful restraint), 376 (d) (gang rape), the Scheduled Castes and Tribes (Prevention of Atrocities) Act, and IT Act.
Police said the five students had allegedly raped the girl by taking her in their car to a forest area.
They also recorded the act and threatened the girl that the video would be shared on social media if she revealed the incident to anyone.
The arrested have been identified as Gurunandan (19) of Canadamule, Sunil (19) of Pili gunda of Puttur taluk, Rawal (19) of Kadambu, Kishan (19) of Peene and Prakhyat (19) of Balua and all of them are studying in the second year degree.
As the video went viral, district police registered a case at the Puttur women's police station and formed two teams to trace the culprits, which led to the arrests.
District superintendent of police B M Laxmi Prasad warned the public not to share it on social media.
In a press note, he said this will amount to a criminal offence under 354 (c) of IPC (Voyeurism) and provisions of the IT act and people including group admins will be arraigned as accused under the sections.
The five students have been suspended from the college after the police intimated the arrest to the authorities.
The decision was taken by the institutions administrative board.
All are active in ABVP: SP
All arrested accused were active in the ABVP unit in the college. Even the victim was also the member of the organization, SP Lakshmi Prasad said.
The Sangh Parivar backed ABVP activists act evoked widespread anger across the society. As soon as the incident came to light, the college management has suspended all the five students from the college, it is said.
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Judiciary cut through web of lies: Kavitha after court clears her name in Delhi excise policy case
Hyderabad (PTI): Telangana Jagruthi president K Kavitha on Friday expressed relief over being discharged in the Delhi excise policy case and said the judiciary has cut through the "web of lies" in the case.
Kavitha, daughter of BRS president and former Telangana Chief Minister K Chandrasekhar Rao, said she has always maintained that the case was politically motivated, foisted on "opposition parties" as part of a political vendetta.
"Satyamev Jayate (truth alone triumphs). This (case) was a web of lies. Judiciary has cut right through it," she told reporters here.
A Delhi court on Friday discharged former Delhi chief minister Arvind Kejriwal, his deputy Manish Sisodia, Kavitha and 20 others in the politically charged liquor policy case, pulling up the CBI by saying it found no "overarching conspiracy or criminal intent" in the policy.
Kavitha said her family members, including her husband, in-laws, and parents, and Telangana Jagruthi workers stood by her during her difficult times, and thanked them for their support.
Her father, Chandrasekhar Rao, himself time and again, said that the case was a vendetta against him and BRS which was reflected on her, she said.
"Who will account for the time that I lost with my kids (due to her incarceration for five months)? Who will account for the time that I lost with my family," she asked.
Who will answer for her alleged harassment online and abuses in public meetings (by political leaders), she further asked.
Asked if she would like to share her happiness with her father KCR and brother and BRS Working President K T Rama Rao, she said she took her mother's blessings after coming to know about the court verdict.
"I took my mother's blessings after getting this result. This is not the time to talk about other things. I am thankful to all those who stood by me during this case," she said.
Arrested in March 2024, Kavitha walked out of Tihar jail in Delhi on August 29 the same year after the Supreme Court granted her bail in corruption and money laundering cases linked to the alleged Delhi excise policy case.
Kavitha was suspended from the BRS in September, 2025 after she accused her cousins and party leaders T Harish Rao and J Santosh Kumar of "tarnishing" her father's image over the Kaleshwaram lift irrigation project built during the BRS regime.
Since her suspension, she has been focusing on public issues under the banner of Telangana Jagruthi, a cultural organisation she heads.
She also announced in December last year that her political platform would contest the next assembly elections in the state.
