{"id":35034,"date":"2014-09-01T14:09:39","date_gmt":"2014-09-01T08:39:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.in\/news\/?p=35034"},"modified":"2014-09-01T14:09:39","modified_gmt":"2014-09-01T08:39:39","slug":"visva-bharati-sexual-assault-accused-sent-police-custody","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/visva-bharati-sexual-assault-accused-sent-police-custody","title":{"rendered":"Visva Bharati Sexual Assault Accused Sent to Police Custody"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"font: 14px\/1.3em helvetica; margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px; text-align: left; color: #000000; text-transform: none; text-indent: 0px; letter-spacing: normal; word-spacing: 0px; white-space: normal; background-color: #ffffff; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.in\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/Visva-Bharati-University-students.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"35035\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/visva-bharati-sexual-assault-accused-sent-police-custody\/visva-bharati-university-students\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2014\/09\/Visva-Bharati-University-students.jpg?fit=300%2C168&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"300,168\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Visva Bharati University students\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2014\/09\/Visva-Bharati-University-students.jpg?fit=300%2C168&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-35035\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.in\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/Visva-Bharati-University-students.jpg?resize=300%2C168&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Visva Bharati University students\" width=\"300\" height=\"168\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2014\/09\/Visva-Bharati-University-students.jpg?w=300&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2014\/09\/Visva-Bharati-University-students.jpg?resize=150%2C84&amp;ssl=1 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>A West Bengal court Sunday sent three Visva Bharati University students, arrested for alleged sexual harassment of a female student from the northeast, to three days&#8217; 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