[NDTV] Medical students suspended for ragging

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Press Trust Of India

Tuesday, January 30, 2007 (Chennai):

Twenty-one students of Stanley Medical College in Chennai have been suspended for allegedly ragging their juniors, college principal Mustaf Hamedkhan said on Tuesday.

These students had allegedly asked their juniors to come dressed as women on January 19, he told reporters.

He said he had summoned the parents of the suspended students before taking action, but nobody turned up.

Under the Prevention of Ragging Act, students could be imprisoned for two years with a fine upto Rs 10,000.

Tamil Nadu was one of the few states, which had banned ragging and enacted a law to this effect. This followed a suicide by a girl student of a college here a few years back, after she was ragged.