LUCKNOW: The Lucknow University student who twice uploaded pornographic content on the Ancient Indian History and Archaeology department’s WhatsApp group was arrested on Sunday. The student had unabashedly christened himself ‘criminal’ in the SIM used for bombing obscenities in the WhatsApp group, which was formed to share presentations.
Police identified the culprit as Aditya Singh, 20, a BA final year student, who hails from Pratapgarh. “During interrogation, he attributed his act to a growing frustration over his classmates’ unfriendly attitude. “They refused to talk or mix as I came from a small hamlet. I wanted to avenge this by uploading porn and drawing attention,” said Hasanganj SHO Yashkant Singh.
Aditya was tracked down through cyber surveillance and phone details shared by women students, who earlier received similar messages in the department group. Singh has been booked for criminal intimidation, assault, use of criminal force against a woman and under the IT Act.
On July 17, shock and anger swept LU after pornographic images were uploaded on a teaching WhatsApp group of Ancient Indian History and Archaeology (AIHA) department. The accused had also written lewd messages to some girl students and even a faculty member.
AIHA students had requested the faculty to action, but when nothing happened, 40% students left the group in protest. Later a student, Abhinav Kumar Srivastava, took to Twitter to lodge a complaint with university officials after which department head Prof Piyush Bhargava lodged a complaint with the Proctor’s Office and an FIR was lodged at Hasanganj police station.
Five days later, the accused again posted eight obscene images and targeted a student, Abhinav, who complained about the incident.
Chief proctor Prof Dinesh Kumar said, “Police told us that a student of AIHA department has been arrested. We have called a meeting of the proctorial board on Monday to take disciplinary action against him.”
