3 visually impaired students rusticated for ragging

1 Sep 2008, 0235 hrs IST, TNN

AJMER: Three visually impaired
students of a blind school in Ajmer were on Sunday rusticated on charges of ragging their juniors.

The three students, studying in class XI of Government Blind Senior Secondary School, on Sunday admitted to ragging their juniors, mostly students of class VIII. The school principal submitted a report of rustication to the deputy director of secondary education after the students — Nayan Kishore, Ashok and Ramdev — accepted their fault in writing.

"There had been several complaints against these students. They used to force juniors to do unwarranted things apart from asking them to bring cigarettes and gutkha," said school principal Narbada Sharma, adding that their parents had also been called but they hadn't turned up. "Considering their physical challenge, we ignored the complaints on previous occasions, but their act had become intolerable now," she said.