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Three radical connected with Maharishi Dayanand University (MDU) successful Rohtak were booked for intersexual harassment for allegedly asking pistillate sanitation workers to beryllium they were menstruating by providing pictures of their backstage parts, constabulary said connected Friday (October 31, 2025).
The accused were identified arsenic sanitation supervisors Vitender and Vinod, and Assistant Registrar Shyam Sunder.
The varsity, successful a statement, said it had suspended Vitender and Vinod, who had been hired done the Haryana Kaushal Rozgar Nigam Limited connected contract, portion an interior probe had been ordered into the incident.
The alleged incidental took spot connected October 26, a fewer hours earlier Haryana Governor Ashim Kumar Ghosh was scheduled to sojourn the campus.
Three pistillate sanitation workers, successful a ailment to varsity authorities, alleged that the 2 supervisors archetypal forced them to cleanable the analyzable contempt being told they were "unwell" and past asked them to beryllium they were menstruating.
"We told them we could not enactment faster arsenic we were unwell owed to our periods, but they demanded we beryllium it. When we refused, we were abused and threatened with dismissal," 1 of the sanitation workers, who claimed to beryllium employed with MDU for 11 years, alleged.
The women alleged that the supervisors told them they were pursuing Assistant Registrar Shyam Sunder's orders. Mr. Sunder denied giving immoderate specified acquisition to the supervisors.
PGIMS Police Station SHO Rohsan Lal said an FIR was registered connected Wednesday (October 29, 2025) nether charges of transgression intimidation, intersexual harassment, intent to insult the modesty of a woman, and battle oregon usage of transgression unit against a woman. The accused whitethorn besides beryllium booked nether the Scheduled Castes and the Scheduled Tribes (Prevention of Atrocities) Act, the SHO said.
"The connection of 1 of the women sanitation workers was recorded connected Friday [October 31]," the SHO said.
In Rohtak, sanitation workers deed the streets successful protestation astatine respective places. Meanwhile, MDU said workplace insecurity volition not beryllium tolerated. "The University has ever reiterated its committedness to providing a safe, respectful, and culturally delicate enactment environment," the University said successful a statement.
