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There was no lathi-charge on girls, claims BHU V-C Girish Chandra Tripathi.

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Varanasi: Girish Chandra Tripathi, the Vice-Chancellor of the Banaras Hindu University, has categorically denied any police crackdown on girl students who were protesting against incidents of eve-teasing at the varsity recently.

Speaking to DNA, BHU V-C rejected reports that girl students of the varsity were lathi-charged by police.

"There was no police action on girls, it was only the outsiders engaged in violence who were attacked by police," Tripathi said.

Tripathi further claimed that the recent violence at the prestigious university was the handiwork of ''outsiders'' with ''vested interests.''

The incident of sexual harassment that led to protests by students was created by outsiders with vested interests who had an eye on the Prime Minister’s visit to Varanasi, he claimed.

Meanwhile, Prime Minister Narendra Modi, BJP national president Amit Shah and several top political leaders have strongly condemned the alleged police crackdown on girl students at the BHU and called for exercising restraint.

There was no lathi-charge on girls, claims BHU V-C Girish Chandra Tripathi.

Allaying concerns regarding the situation at the BHU, the Vice-Chancellor said that everything is "normal" on campus and whatever has come to the public domain is a propaganda by "outsiders".

Notably, protests erupted in BHU after a female student was allegedly molested by three bike-borne men on the campus on Thursday evening.

"When I became the VC of this university in 2014 there was a much bigger agitation going on here, more than 100 boys were admitted to hospital at that time. Things happen on campus, you cannot stop these things. This time, the matter has been taken out of context because of outsiders. Outsiders, including political parties, have created a negative situation to destroy peace on campus," Tripathi said in a telephonic conversation.

When quizzed about the safety of girls students inside the campus, the BHU V-C said, ''Ours is the only university that is completely covered by CCTV cameras. We got them installed long ago. In fact, when cameras were being installed the same girls who are protesting today came to us and said that cameras will disturb our privacy. There are 65 points already covered in the campus, which have CCTV cameras installed, there is no question of lack of security."

Referring to a charter of demands, including the deployment of women security guards, which the agitating students had given to BHU administration, the V-C said, "As a policy, we can only have ex-military men as security guards on the campus. However, we have initiated the process of getting women guards."

Importantly, the UP government had yesterday removed the Lanka Station House Officer, Circle Officer and an Additional City Magistrate (ACM) for failing to handle the situation at the BHU recently.

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A US national, John Allen Chau, was killed by an uncontacted tribe living in one of the Andaman and Nicobar islands, officials said on Wednesday. The tribe, called Sentinelese, is one of the last remaining uncontacted indigenous group in Asia.

Where: Sentinelese lives in the North Sentinel Island, a few miles west of Port Blair. They are known to aggressively protect their isolation from the rest of the world — many attempts to make contact with them in the 1970s and 1990s failed after they attacked using bow and arrow. In 2006, two fishermen were killed after they slept overnight in their boat near the North Sentinel Island and approached its shore.

Before time: The indigenous group has been living on the island for centuries and is thought to have even foiled attempts by Colonial British to make contact. 13th-century explorer Marco Polo described them as: "They are a most violent and cruel generation who seem to eat everybody they catch."

How many: The 2011 Census of India says there are 10 households in the North Sentinel island, comprising 15 individuals (12 male and 3 female). But that is a wild guess — no one knows for sure how many tribesmen live there, even the Indian government, replying to a Rajya Sabha query in 2017, said the exact population of the island is unknown. There were concerns that the 2004 Tsunami could have wiped them off until a coast guard helicopter sent to investigate was attacked by bow-and-arrow-wielding tribesmen.

Legal protection: It is illegal — under the Andaman and Nicobar Islands (Protection of Aboriginal Tribes) Regulation, 1956 — to make contact with the Sentinelese or even venture up to 5 kms from its shore, and for a good reason. Centuries of isolation from the rest of humanity means these islanders would not have gained the immunity to common diseases and microbes that we carry. Making contact with them, hence, could prove fatal to them. A study says of the 238 Amazonian indigenous tribes in Brazil that have been contacted in the last several decades, three quarters went extinct and those who survived saw their mortality rate shoot up by 80%.

Others in India: Sentinelese is not the only tribes continuing to live their modest ways today. Jarawa and Onge and Great Andamanese are other indigenous tribes living in the island cluster. But unlike Sentinelese, these tribes have made contact with the rest of humanity — in fact, India has built a highway through the Jarawa forest, though Supreme Court in 2013 barred entry of tourist there.

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