India, Oct. 17 -- A 22-year-old student was arrested for allegedly raping a senior at a private engineering college in Bengaluru, police said on Friday. The accused, identified as Jeevan Gowda, was taken into custody and remanded to judicial custody after the survivor filed a complaint at the Hanumanthanagar police station.

According to police officials, the assault took place on October 10 inside the college premises but was reported five days later, after the survivor -- a seventh-semester student -- informed her parents.

"Both the survivor and the accused were known to each other and studied in the same institution, though Jeevan was a year behind due to academic backlogs," said an officer in the know of the development.

The complai...