[Hindu] A management and a law student thrashed in ragging in UP, MP

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Lucknow-Bhopal, Sept. 17 (PTI): A management student has landed in a hospital's psychiatry ward after being beaten and humiliated while a law student was physically assaulted in two separate incidents of brutal ragging by seniors in Uttar Pradesh and Madhya Pradesh.

Sanjay Singh, a student of Sahara Arts and Management Academy in Lucknow, was allegedly ragged by students from Lucknow University and some other nearby institutions who lived in the same hostel in the outskirts of the city, police said.

Vivek Rai, LLB (Hons) first year student staying in the hostel of Dr Hari Singh Gaur Vishwavidyalaya in Sagar in Madhya Pradesh , has complained to Superintendent of Police Mohammad Shahid Absar, that senior hostel-mates had ragged him by physically assaulting him.

Both the incidents occurred on September 15 and police have registered cases.

Singh has lost his mental balance following the assault, police sources said but hostel authorities claimed that the victim who lived in a private hostel in Madiaon in Lucknow district was suffering from mental disorder.

He was suffering from acute psychosis and was undergoing treatment in the psychiatry ward of the medical college here, hostel authorities added.

Singh was allegedly beaten and humiliated while on his way to his college in a bus on September 15 last, following which he ran away from the hostel, police said.

An FIR was lodged by the victim's local guardian in which three inmates of the hostel were named, sources said, adding that investigation in the matter matter was on.

In Sagar, Vivek Rai has named four students - Akhilesh Verma, Pradeep Tiwari, Manish Tiwari and Sudeep Samdalia - and alleged they entered his room late that night and demanded money for consuming liquor.

When Rai refused, he was taken to another room and asked to follow their orders, the complaint said, adding when he declined again, he was beaten up by them.

The victim has also alleged some seniors kept arms and ammunition in the hostel to terrorise the juniors.

Meanwhile, the university administration has said that strict action will be taken against the accused students if the ragging charge was proved in the police inquiry.