Stripped, beaten, sexually assaulted: What happened to Himank Bansal, Hyderabad student forced to chant ‘Allah Hu Akbar’
Hyderabad law student Himank Bansal was brutally ragged as per a recent viral video, where he was forced to chant ‘Allah hu Akbar’ by his seniors.
At Least 10 students of IBS-ICFAI Foundation for Higher Education (IFHE), a business school located on the outskirts of Hyderabad, have been charged with murder attempt after a video of them assaulting a fellow student went viral on social media.
The student, identified as Himank Bansal, is an undergraduate law student at the IFHE in Hyderabad.
Himank Bansal studying in IFHE Hyderabad assaulted and forced to chant "Allah Hu akbar" in campus by senior students of another religion.
IFHE comes under Hyderabad parliamentary constituency of @asadowaisi but not a single word by him yet!
Also no media reporting this matter. pic.twitter.com/qGy5Xyvi6H
— Vishnu Vardhan Reddy (@SVishnuReddy) November 12, 2022
According to the FIR, the incident took place on November 11 in the Boys Hostel at IBS College in Ranga Reddy district in Telangana. In the FIR, Himank said that not only was he brutally thrashed, but he was also sexually assaulted by the other men.
Bansal said that he was physically and sexually assaulted by a group of 15 to 20 men who had barged inside his hostel room on Friday evening. He also said that he was stripped naked, with his clothes torn off and he was kicked and punched.
Bansal, in his complaint, said that a student even attempted to put his genitals into his mouth. “They further tried to tear my clothes, got me naked and kept beating me one after the other. They shouted ‘beat him till he dies’,” he stated in his complaint.
Seniors students of IBS College in #Chevella in Telangana ragging a junior student. @SabithaindraTRS @KTRoffice @KTR_News @TelanganaCMO @SomeshKumarIAS @arvindkumar_ias @TelanganaDGP @cyberabadpolice @CommissionerHR pic.twitter.com/fVluiX6HHj
— R V K Rao_TNIE (@RVKRao2) November 11, 2022
In his complaint, Bansal also mentioned that Dipasha Sharma, a friend of his from 1st year BA-LLB course, outed a private instagram chat between them in which he had discussed about references in Islamic scriptures. The girl is said to shared the screenshots to others.
The student told police that he had become a subject of widespread ridicule in the college after the video and photos of the assault were shared widely.
“The immense trauma left him with suicidal thoughts and he was unable to sleep for the past few days”, Bansal said in his complaint.
Bansal told the police that his abusers had threatened to beat him up again.
Based on the compliant, the cops invoked Indian Penal Code sections 307 (murder attempt), 342 (punishment for wrongful confinement), 450 (trespass to commit an offence), 323 (voluntarily causing hurt) and 506 (criminal intimidation), read with section 149 and sections 4(I), (II), and (III) of the Prohibition of Ragging Act of 2011 against 10 students of the college.
