The decision to send the team was taken at a high-level meeting convened by External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj on Thursday that was attended by Foreign Secretary S Jaishankar, Secretary (Economic Relations) Amar Sinha and other senior officials of the ministry.
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She asked the state government to ensure the safety and security of all foreign students.
However, in a news conference Thursday, Karnataka Home Minister G. Parameshwara denied the allegations made by the Tanzanian student that she was “stripped and paraded”.
Worldwide media reports said on Wednesday that a mob in the Indian city of Bangalore attacked and humiliated a 21-year-old Tanzanian student. The woman was stripped, beaten and paraded before a mob on Sunday after locals in Bengaluru assumed she was linked to another incident, where a Sudanese man’s auto crashed into a woman and killed her.
Four more people have been arrested for assaulting the Tanzanian woman in Bengaluru taking the total number of arrests to 9 so far.
The Tanzanian girl is reported to have gone to the police to report the attack but they said they would only take the complaint if she could bring in the driver who hit the villager. The mob had also set the vehicle ablaze with all the students losing their valuable documents, like passports, ATM cards and cash.
Kijazi visited in Bengaluru to take stock of the situation emerged after the attack on a Tanzanian girl student here on the night of January 31.
Bengaluru police on Wednesday registered a case under 354 IPC (outraging the modesty of a woman) against unidentified persons.
In Delhi, Tanzanian High Commissioner John W H Kijazi said he had sent a complaint to the Government and sought prompt action against those behind the “unfortunate” incident.
“We will extend the full cooperation for both the state and the Central Governments to the investigation of this case”, he added.
Hessarghatta, where Sunday’s incident happened, has half a dozen educational institutions where a large number of African students – including 150 from Tanzania – study.
She was even pushed down by passengers in a bus when she tried to escape on it.
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Bosco Kaweesi, legal adviser, All African Students Union in Bengalore, the woman, who had been driving the second vehicle, “recounted that people were streaming out from buses, auto-rickshaws and charging towards them, punching and kicking them”.
