For days before she was subjected to alleged sexual assault on the campus of India’s prestigious South Asian University in Maidan Garhi here, the 18-year-old first-year student had been receiving lewd emails demanding sexual favours. These culminated into threats to make her morphed nude pictures public.

It was the fear of public humiliation that led the victim to the crime scene on the campus on the night of Saturday.

What followed was a series of horrific assaults on her, as detailed in the FIR the Delhi Police have registered in the matter. Four men allegedly groped and disrobed the girl, forcing her to swallow a pill as she resisted.

At one point in the assault, the FIR states, the sound of a nearby food cart drove the perpetrators away, leaving behind the shocked victim.

The polic

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