BHU clashes: A woman student was beaten up by cops during the protest
When the affected students had reported a specific case to the university authorities, it needed sensitive handling at the point of time. That was possibly not done. Because of that, the situation got aggravated," Varanasi Commissioner Nitin Gokarn told NDTV. "I am talking of the sensitivity of the first responders -- they should have acted properly."
The university also didn't act to save the situation when it threatened to go out of hand, said the early report submitted to the state government.
The university's Vice-Chancellor Girish Chandra Tripathi told NDTV that the woman's complaint was "simple eve teasing" which was "deliberately staged a day before the Prime Minister's visit". The protests were politicized, he said, linking them to the two-day visit of PM Modi to Varanasi, his parliamentary constituency.
Mr Tripathi refused to comment on the commissioner's report.
