<div>A 23-year-old Jawaharlal Nehru University student was arrested on charges of sexual assault on a woman classmate, police on Sunday said.<br /><br />According to the Delhi Police, both the complainant and the accused are post-graduate students of the university’s Centre for Historical Studies.<br /><br />The incident took place in December 2015, when the accused and the complainant went to a friend’s rented house for a party and he forced himself on her, a senior Delhi Police official said. <br /><br />However, the woman approached the police and reported the matter on May 17. A case under IPC Section 376 (rape) was registered against the accused, the official said.<br /><br />According to Human Resource Development Minister Smriti Irani’s submission in Lok Sabha last year, 25 cases of sexual harassment were reported from JNU in 2013-14, the highest among all educational institutions.<br /><br /></div>
<div>A 23-year-old Jawaharlal Nehru University student was arrested on charges of sexual assault on a woman classmate, police on Sunday said.<br /><br />According to the Delhi Police, both the complainant and the accused are post-graduate students of the university’s Centre for Historical Studies.<br /><br />The incident took place in December 2015, when the accused and the complainant went to a friend’s rented house for a party and he forced himself on her, a senior Delhi Police official said. <br /><br />However, the woman approached the police and reported the matter on May 17. A case under IPC Section 376 (rape) was registered against the accused, the official said.<br /><br />According to Human Resource Development Minister Smriti Irani’s submission in Lok Sabha last year, 25 cases of sexual harassment were reported from JNU in 2013-14, the highest among all educational institutions.<br /><br /></div>
