Delhi Police has arrested a 26-year-old man on Saturday for allegedly stalking a female student of the Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) a few days ago, police said on Sunday.
Police said that the victim is a student of JNU and residing in a girls’ hostel in the JNU campus. The accused, Shailesh Kumar, a resident of Munirika village, was arrested from outside a girls hostel inside JNU campus.
According to police, the accused was stalking the victim for the past fortnight, few days back he tried to talk to the victim but she refused to talk. The first time, the victim was stalked, she was returning from her classes while she was crossing Shipra Hostel.
Infuriated with the repeated rejection, the accused started stalking her. The victim told the police that the accused started following her and even came outside her hostel, breaching the security of college campus.
On finding the stalker outside her hostel campus, she immediately alerted college security. The youth was detained by the security, who alter handed over him to the police.
"On Saturday, we received a PCR call from a girls hostel in JNU campus about a stalker, a police team reached to the spot and arrested the youth. The arrested person is a college drop out and work at a shop in the locality," said a senior police official.
Based on the girl's complaint, a case under sections 354-D (stalking) and 506 (criminal intimidation) of the IPC was registered against the youth, said a police official and the accused who is unemployed, was arrested.