SANTINIKETAN: A day after a student, who was allegedly sexually harassed, left West Bengal's Visva-Bharati campus, three students of the reputed educational institute were arrested on Saturday.According to Times Now, the three have been held for stripping, molesting and filming a junior student.Detained, interrogated and “humiliated” by Visva-Bharati officials, a sexually harassed girl and her father left Tagore’s hallowed campus in tears on Friday, vowing never to return.“We don’t feel safe here. They (VB authorities) do not have any sympathy for the victim. On the contrary, they are trying to prove my daughter guilty. They interrogated her more than those boys who caused her so much trauma. We are sentimentally attached to Rabindranath Tagore and consider Visva-Bharati a temple. What happened here is unthinkable,” said the father, just before they were hustled into a VB vehicle by officials, private security guards and a group of students, and driven straight to Bolpur railway station. The father’s last words just before Saraighat Express pulled away were: “We are leaving Santiniketan forever. I could not file a police complaint.” Earlier, when asked if his daughter would return to Visva-Bharati, he had said: “The question does not arise.”Vice-chancellor Sushanta Duttagupta snubbed the media when asked about this. “Who said she is going away? Only you people, the media, say so." When reporters quoted the father's parting words, Duttagupta shot back: “Why don't you ask him then?”The Prime Minister’s Office is closely monitoring the controversy and UGC has set up a fact-finding committee to probe the allegations, sources in Delhi said.The girl had complained on Thursday that three classmates had misbehaved with her, taken an obscene MMS and were blackmailing her with it. The alleged incident happened four days ago. She was so traumatized that she had to be hospitalized and filed a written complaint after she was discharged on Thursday. The VB authorities allegedly tried to hush it up. Some teachers apparently “checked” the phones of the three accused youths and declared that there was no obscene photo, although they admitted they didn’t get the data card investigated for deleted pictures.When her father came on Thursday evening, he was persuaded not to file a police complaint. By then, some teachers had spoken to the girl and the three men and got their written statements. The VB committee against sexual harassment summoned the father to a meeting. When he finally emerged late Thursday night, he was on the verge of collapsing. “The university officials have requested me not to file a police complaint. They have promised to take proper action,” he said.On Friday, the father alleged that though they wanted to go to police, VB officials did everything they could to prevent it. VB authorities virtually detained the girl and her father throughout the day in the name of discussion and questioning, giving them no chance to go to police, said sources in the university.In fact, a group of students and officials was waiting for the father and daughter in the morning. As soon as they stepped out of her hostel, they were encircled and led to the Kala Bhavana office, where they were made to sit for around two hours. From there, they were taken to the VC Sushanta Duttagupta’s office where he ‘talked’ to them for around an hour. Then, they were driven to another building to appear before committee chairperson Mousumi Bhattacharya, where they were closeted for three hours. From there, they were taken out by the back door, put in a university vehicle and taken to Bolpur railway station via a circuitous route to avoid the media."They told me that it would be useless to go to police. media or political leaders. An official ordered me to switch off my cellphone and not to talk to anybody,” he told TOI. They were escorted by four security guards who prevented him from talking to the media even at the station.He did manage to say that he was taking back his daughter because VB was "insensitive" towards her complaint. But Kala Bhavana principal Sisir Sahana denied this. "He wanted to take her daughter on leave for some time. He did not tell us that she would not return to Santiniketan. Rather she has told us that she likes to stay here and continue her study," he said. The VC's phone was switched off all day.Calls to VB spokesperson Sandip Basu Sarbadhikari and Mousumi Bhattacharya went unanswered.