From male staff having easy access to dormitories to the administration ignoring persistent complaints about harassment, several past and present residents of Savitribai Phule Hostel shared their ordeal.
The accused had been residing at the hostel since 2005. Interestingly, he was not an employee of the hostel but had been given a room in the back. He served as the ‘watchman’ and laundryman for the girls at the hostel and had contact numbers of most of them. The girls would also call him to run errands for them.
The student was allegedly assaulted and then strangulated by Prakash Kanojia, a 33-year-old security guard at the hostel, on the intermittent night of June 5 and 6.