[NDTV] Medical student ends life due to ragging

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Press Trust of India
Thursday, September 20, 2007 (Mysore)

A first-year student of Mysore Medical College committed suicide on Thursday allegedly due to ragging, police said.

Chetan Raj, 18, was allegedly subjected to ragging by senior students and he took the extreme step by hanging himself from the ceiling of his lodge room.

Raj, son of a BSNL employee in Shimoga, joined the college on September 10 and was staying in college hostel.

According to his parents, Chetan had returned to Shimoga on the occasion of Ganesh Chaturthi festival on September 15.

He complained that he was being subjected to ragging. His father decided to get him a paying guest accommodation in Mysore.

Accordingly, he vacated the college hostel and checked into a lodge on September 16, pending his accommodation as a paying guest. His body was found hanging from the roof of his lodge room on Thursday.

Police have registered a case and are investigating. Hostel wardens said they were also inquiring into circumstances leading to Chetan's suicide.