India, Oct. 17 -- A 21-year-old engineering student from a private college in South Bengaluru has been arrested for allegedly raping his classmate inside a men's washroom on the campus.

Police identified the accused as Jeevan Gowda, a sixth-semester student at the institution. He was taken into custody on Wednesday and has since been remanded to judicial custody. The alleged assault took place on 10 October, while the survivor, a seventh-semester student at the same college, filed a complaint five days later on 15 October, as per a report by NDTV.

The case has been registered under Section 64 (Punishment for Rape) of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita (BNS), as per the First Information Report (FIR).

The FIR revealed that the two students wer...