Siddaramaiah refuses SIT for Udupi filming case

economictimes.indiatimes.com:

Siddaramaiah on Tuesday refuted the possibility of the Udupi washroom video case being handed over to a Special Investigation Team (SIT), saying a Deputy SP-level officer was conducting the investigation. BJP leaders have been campaigning for the case to be handled by a higher investigating authority. Former deputy CM CN Ashwath Narayan had urged the government to transfer the case to the CBI.

Siddaramaiah also disagreed with Home Minister G Parameshwar calling the incident a college prank. “The case is registered and an FIR has also been filed and submitted to the court..which would not have been done if it was merely a prank,” he said. The Udupi case, which has stirred up a storm in the state’s politics, began when an activist tweeted about an incident in a para-medical college in the coastal city where three female students allegedly filmed a college mate while she used the washroom.

It took a communal colour when accusations surfaced that the three students targeted their victim as she was a Hindu. The ruling Congress has maintained that the police closed the case as their preliminary findings revealed that it was meant to be an act of prank by the students with full knowledge of the victim. The story took an unexpected turn last week when BJP leader and National Commission for Women (NCW) member Khushu Sundar visited ground zero and said there was no truth in the reports that there were hidden cameras in toilets at the para-medical college and that there were also false videos going around.