Chargesheet against four DU students for ‘stalking’ Smriti Irani

A chargesheet has been filed against four Delhi University students for allegedly stalking Union Minister Smriti Irani last year, when she was on her way to her residence in Chanakyapuri from the Indira Gandhi International Airport. As reported by ANI, the Delhi Police has booked the accused for staking, criminal intimidation and intention to insult modesty of a woman.

The four students, identified as Sitanshu, Karan, Avinash and Amit, were possibly in an inebriated state at the time and belonged to Ram Lal Anand college, Delhi University.

The police in April 2017 reported that the drunk students had followed Irani’s car in Lutyen’s Delhi, after which they were detained. The incident occurred near the US embassy, and the medical examination had confirmed the presence of alcohol in their blood.

ANI reported that one of the accused was later seen apologising to Irani, “We four were returning from our friend’s birthday party. We do agree that we have flouted the rules. We were making a video for Instagram and the music in the car was loud. We were just making funny videos. When we overtook the car, we didn’t know that Smriti Irani was there in it. We would have not done this if we knew that it was Smriti Irani’s car.”