The students demanded better security and protection for students in colleges across Mangalore, in the backdrop of the sexual assault of the medical student in Manipal.
Urging the Deputy Commissioner to adopt appropriate measures to avoid such incidents in the future, senate member of Rajiv Gandhi University of Health Sciences, Bangalore Abhilash P V said that the safety of women and students was an issue that required priority, and attention ought to be given in this regard.
There are several medical, dental and professional colleges across the city, and students from abroad and other states come here to study medicine and other branches. To ensure their safety and especially that of female students, police personnel should be deputed for night-patrolling around campuses. Protection should be provided to students, especially at night, he said.
Security personnel and wardens in ladies' hostels, and college authorities should be briefed on how to prevent such incidents in future, he said.
He also urged the police department to ensure immediate arrest of the perpetrators of the gang-rape.
Shruti, a physiotherapy student, said that rather than conducting debates on nationalised news channels on the issue of safety of women in cities, strict action should be taken by the authorities to ensure protection for women.
A memorandum was submitted to the Deputy Commissioner in this regard.
The victim, hailing from Thrissur in Kerala, had allegedly been gang-raped by three men after being kidnapped near her apartment in Manipal late at night on Thursday.
Police make headway in medical student gang-rape case; Home Minister to visit Manipal
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