Viral Video: All-female students Miranda House College in Delhi was allegedly subjected to harassment when males yelling slogans and catcalling scaled fences to enter the college to attend a Diwali celebration.
After the festival started, there were extensive student lines that circled the college in less than an hour. Women’s Development Cell of Miranda House said in a statement that the college realised it could not hold any more people and ordered participants to leave the location.
A Miranda House student named Sobhana shared a video of guys scaling barriers to enter the building and claimed that other incidents of harassment included catcalling, groping, and shouting sexist derogatory terms at students.
“Many attendees of the fest, primarily men, went entirely out of control at this move and reacted aggressively when the administration prevented them from being on campus. They entered restricted premises like classrooms, ignored the requests of professors and staff, responded rudely to appeals to behave and invaded the students’ personal space,” the college’s Women’s Development Cell said.
As of yet, no police complaint has been made. According to the Delhi Police, Miranda House College hosted a Diwali programme on October 14 and all college students were welcome to attend.
“At some point, a huge crowd gathered inside and so, for some time, the entry gates had to be closed by college administration. Some students [three or four] were trying to enter to see the Diwali Mela by climbing the walls. They were stopped and they could not enter inside the college premises. This is the video of that time. It is pertinent to mention that no complaint has been received as alleged by the administration also. And also, the program went very peacefully and incident free,” the police said in a statement.
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