Hassan: Girl Student Commits Suicide over Ragging

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 Hassan, 13 Jun 2013: A teenage girl student of high school on Wednesday June 12 committed suicide by hanging to the fan in her house located in Vivekanagar layout, near here over ragging.

 The fourteen-year-old Anusha, daughter of Rangaswamy and Class IX student of Adichunchanagiri Kannada Medium School, here committed suicide in her home when none was around.

 Anusha left behind her death note that stated that a certain boy studying in the same school was abusing her and her friend Dakshayini. Anusha’s mother works in a garment factory located in industrial area and her father Rangaswamy is working in a cement shop.

 Rangaswamy alleged that he had complaint of abuse to a teacher at Anusha’s school, but the latter had belittled his complaint. The sub-inspector Vijay Krishna visited the family and registered a case in this regard. Further investigations are under way.

Four engineering students booked for ragging actor Nikhil’s brother

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 The Cyberabad police on Tuesday registered a case against four engineering students for allegedly ragging junior student Rohit Siddarth at an exam centre in Pet Basheerabad. Rohit is the brother of actor Nikhil.

 The case was booked based on Rohit’s complaint. Police said Rohit was preparing for exams near a canteen when the accused picked up an argument with him for not greeting them.

 They thrashed Rohit and damaged his spectacles. On coming to know about the incident, Nikhil rushed to the spot and consoled his brother. He req-uested the police to take stern action against the accused.

Ragging case against Nirmal Madhav

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 The Cheruthuruthy police have registered a case against Nirmal Madhav, a final year student of Mechanical Engineering course at Malabar College of Engineering and Technology, Desamangalam, who faces charges of ragging a junior student.

 On the basis of a complaint by Sadiq, 19, a second-year graduate student, the college had appointed a three-member commission to investigate the allegations.

 According to the complaint, Nirmal Madhav had assaulted and threatened Sadiq several times. Nirmal Madhav had joined the Malabar College of Engineering and Technology after he was forced to leave the Government Engineering College, Kozhikode, following a prolonged and violent protest by the SFI.

11 engineering students held for ragging

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 Police on Saturday arrested 11 students of Purushottam Institute of Engineering Technology (PIET) at Mandiakudar near Kansbahal of Sundargarh district on the charges of ragging the junior students.

 Reports stated that the ragging by second and third year students of PIET landed them in trouble when two of the victims mailed complaints to the anti-ragging cell of University Grant Commission (UGC) and the PIET authorities.

 The UGC cell forwarded the complaint to Sundargarh SP Sanjeev Arora while the college authorities forwarded it to Rajgangpur police. The errant students were arrested and taken to Sundargarh district headquarters to be produced in court.

They returned to the institute Saturday night after the court granted them bail. Rajgangpur IIC MR Pradhan said the junior students were banned from wearing casual dress even during leisure period and were forced to wear uniform all the time by the seniors.

 After complying the diktat for a week, they revolted and a clash ensued on Thursday following which the two victim students wrote to the anti-ragging cell. PIET Director KM Purohit said the institute has taken serious note of the incident. The disciplinary and anti-ragging committees of the institute would shortly take a decision on the errant students, he added.

Ragged by seniors, student jumps in front of train

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 MUMBAI: A second-year student of a Navi Mumbai college killed himself on Friday by jumping in front of a local train, allegedly because he was being ragged by two of his fellow students for the past several months. The victim, 19-year-old Nitin Balu Padalkar, left a suicide note in which he named the two students for harassing him.

 The Government Railway Police (GRP) in Kalyan said they will question the two students named in the suicide note on Monday when the college reopens. A case of unnatural death under Section 174 of Criminal Procedure Code has been registered though they said preliminary inquiries suggest it was a case of ragging. Nitin was a second-year student of electronics and telecommunications in the Ramrao Adik Institute of Technology, which is affiliated to the University of Mumbai and is part of the D Y Patil Group.

College officials could not be contacted despite repeated attempts. The state government and the university have called for reports on the incident. Nitin, who killed himself a day after his second-year final exams began, lived with his father Balu, who works as a labourer, mother Kamal and younger sister Nisha in the Kolsewadi area of Kalyan (East).

 Ragging is a crime under the Maharashtra Prohibition of Ragging Act, 1999, and institutes are supposed to have strict mechanisms to stop it. "The government will check if a mechanism to halt ragging as suggested by the Centre and the Raghavan committee was in place in the institution," said a bureaucrat in the higher and technical education department. Nitin was found on the tracks by motormen at 8.10pm on Friday, who alerted the Vithalwadi stationmaster.

The GRP officials were rushed to the spot and the victim was taken to Rukminibai Hospital in Kalyan, but doctors declared him dead on arrival. The victim's family corroborated the details in the suicide note saying Nitin had been depressed because of the harassment meted out to him by the students mentioned in the note. "As my brother was good in studies, two of his classmates had been ragging him since October. They harassed him over petty issues," Nitin's younger sister Nisha told TOI.

 She added, "Over the past four days, my brother had been very depressed about the continuous harassment and could not concentrate on his studies. Seeing my brother upset, even my mother wanted to complain about the harassment to college authorities, but Nitin told her not to do so because the two students would then tease him for being the boy who brought his mother to complain."

 On Friday, Nitin had left the house around 6pm telling his parents that he was going to meet a friend in the Chinchpada area, but he never returned. The family received a call from police at 8.50pm informing them of Nitin's death. S G Nirmal, Kalyan GRP police inspector said, "Preliminary investigations show it is ragging, as Nitin was depressed over the harassment by two fellow students. On the basis of the suicide note, we will question both the students once college starts on Monday. If needed, we will invoke the anti-ragging Act."

BHU student alleges communal abuses and insults

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 Why don’t you go to Aligarh? What are you doing here? Such questions are posed almost every day, he says A student of Banaras Hindu University (BHU) has alleged that university officials are pressing him to withdraw a complaint he recently lodged with the University Grants Commission over his “ragging” by a junior.

 Twenty-two-year-old Mahtab (name changed), third-year student of Linguistics (Honours), said he was subjected to “communal abuses and insults” by a second-year student at his hostel on May 10, and after he registered a complaint, he was being threatened and abused by the student and his friends.

 Mahtab initially complained to the hostel warden but found his response “unsatisfactory.” He then called up the UGC anti-ragging cell, which promptly registered his complaint and forwarded it to the BHU anti-ragging cell. The student alleged that authorities were pressuring him to withdraw the complaint and subjected him to “...counter-questioning.” “They asked me why I didn’t complain to the minority cell and [told me] that I shouldn’t have complained to the UGC as it has brought the university into disrepute,” Mahtab said.

His questioning was videographed. He also alleged that anti-ragging cell officials were pressing him to ignore the incident and learn to “compromise.” “Such things happen and I should ignore them and not let them hamper my career, the anti-ragging cell officials told me.

One official even told me that I would have to bow if I cared for my result.” The student said he was subjected to abuses and insults in the common room of a hostel on May 10, after which he was being regularly threatened and intimidated by students affiliated to right-wing groups. However, he claims this was not one-off. “Why don’t you [Muslims] go to Aligarh? What are you doing here?

We are asked such things almost every day. I will not withdraw my complaint,” he said. Meanwhile, the second-year student has filed a counter-complaint of physical and mental harassment against Mahtab. Anti-ragging cell head S.K. Srivastava denied the allegation that the university was trying to close the matter. “An enquiry is on, and a report will be submitted to the Vice-Chancellor in a stipulated time.

There’s no way the university has closed it off. But the counter-complaint… has made the case complex.”

Student alleges ragging at government college

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 NOIDA: A first year BA student of the government degree college in Noida was allegedly ragged by his seniors accusing them of forcefully pulling down his pants right outside the principal's office.

The student, Ramesh Yadav, claimed that he was assaulted while he was in queue outside the principal's office to collect a laptop made available under a UP government scheme. When another student tried to help Ramesh, the accused allegedly assaulted him too. "I went to the principal's office at 10am. I was standing in line when a BA third year student, Pintu Yadav, made a derogatory remark.

When I opposed, he forcefully pulled my pants down. After seeing this, another senior Om Prakash Yadav, a M.Com final year student, came to the rescue. Pintu left the spot and returned with his friends and attacked us outside the campus when we were returning home," said Ramesh. An FIR has been filed by Om Prakash at Sector 39 police station alleging that Pintu, along with his friends Bobby Yadav, Ajay Yadav and Anil Yadav, assaulted him.

The FIR also states that in the assault Om Prakash was injured and received bruises on his shoulder and back. College officials, however, denied that any such incident took place within the college campus. "It's not a matter of ragging. A fight broke out between two groups outside the college premises.

After the fight, a student informed us and we immediately reported the incident to the police," said MC Jain, chief proctor. Other officials claimed that the clash was between two different student union groups. "Pintu is a student union leader and his group had a clash with another for attempting to take claim among the students for distribution of laptops," said an official.