A 21-year-old engineering student has been arrested for allegedly raping a female classmate inside a men’s toilet at a private engineering college in South Bengaluru.

The accused, Jeevan Gowda, a sixth-semester student, was taken into police custody on Wednesday and has since been remanded to judicial custody. The incident allegedly occurred on October 10, while the survivor, a seventh-semester student at the same institution, lodged a complaint five days later, on October 15.

According to the FIR, the survivor and accused knew each other and were classmates. On the day of the incident, the survivor met Jeevan to collect some belongings. During lunch break, he called her several times and asked her to meet near the architecture block on the seventh floor. When she arrived, he tried to fo

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