On April 1st, 2018, two Symbiosis Law School students, Apoorva Yarabahalli and Snigdha Jayakrishnan, wrote to Maneka Gandhi, Minister of Women and Child Development, as well as other organisations, including the National Commission for Women, expressing their dissatisfaction with the institute’s handling of sexual harassment complaints. On May 3rd, over a month after the institute was asked to investigate the matter, the Registrar answered, stating that one of the accused, Assistant Professor Srinivas Methuku, had been severely reprimanded and that the other accusations had been misunderstood as sexual harassment. Due to the administration’s lacklustre response, Apoorva uploaded a picture of an Instagram post on Facebook on October 10 in which an anonymous victim had recounted her sexual harassment experience with Srinivas, as well as the institution’s response, which indicated that the accused had been “reprimanded.” Puja Malhan, the Head of Students’ Affairs at Symbiosis International University, took objection to this.