Students leave hostel alleging ragging by seniors

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 SIRSA: Alleging ragging by seniors, 37 Class X students of Jawahar Navodaya Vidyalaya (JNV), Odhan in the district, moved out of their hostels on Monday night. As they staged a protest, alleging that they were ragged by students of Class XII, police have reached the school and begun a probe.

 Taking action against the erring students, the school principal suspended nine students for 15 days from both classes. The Class X students alleged that their seniors from class XII called them to their rooms and tortured them. They further alleged that they informed the principal, but no action was taken against the seniors.

 Refusing to go back to the hostel, they staged a protest against school authorities at the grain market in Odhan. JNV principal G K Mishra said, "As I learned about the incident, I informed police, asking them to look for the missing students. However, the protest by students Class X is not justified. I will look into their complaint and take action against the seniors, if found guilty." Karnal: A student, Manav, from DAV College, was seriously injured when some youths from Jail Colony here attacked him with a sharp weapon at the bus terminus on Tuesday.

 According to police, Manav and his friend were attacked when they were about to take a bus to go home. Some passersby spotted Manav lying in a pool of blood and rushed him to the trauma centre of Kalpana Chawla Medical College and Hospital from where he was shifted to a private hospital. His condition is stated to be critical. Police have registered a case against the alleged attacker, Vicky, and two others.

Ragging? first-year student beaten up in Gurgaon

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 In a suspected case of ragging, a first-year student of a private engineering college was allegedly assaulted and abandoned at a Bilaspur park in an unconscious state on Tuesday.

 The park is just a stone’s throw away from Gurgaon College of Engineering, where the victim is pursuing his mechanical engineering course. According to Tularam Gautam’s relatives, his seniors assaulted and forced him to consume liquor.

The 20-year-old is undergoing treatment at a private hospital in Gurgaon. He is a resident of Vijay Enclave in Delhi. However, the college management dismissed the claims of the family. Dr Yateendra Tiwari, director of the college, said, “We have formed an inquiry committee to probe the matter.

Ragging is not possible during exams.” Pradeep Singh, a relative of the victim, said, “A group of senior students forced Gautam to consume liquor.

There are injury marks all over his body. The incident took place during lunch break after the exam was over. It must be the handiwork of the seniors as there was no outsider on the campus.” The victim’s relatives claimed that his mobile phone and wallet were also missing. Rahul Sharma, DCP (south), said, “Although the victim has regained consciousness, we are yet to record his statement.”

BAMS student suspended for ragging in Kurukshetra

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KURUKSHETRA: The management of Sri Krishna Ayurvedic College on Monday placed a senior BAMS student for allegedly forcing juniors to dance after disrobing themselves in the hostel. Identified as Chetan Yadav, a resident of Mahendergarh district, the student has been barred from attending the classes.

The college authorities are in the process of identifying others who accompanied Chetan during the Saturday night incident, sources said. Eight juniors -- Ravinder Saini, Sumit Saini, Amit, Gaurav, Rajguru, Mukteshwar, Pankaj and Dinesh -- had lodged a complaint against Chetan before the college authorities. According to complainant students, Chetan had managed to escape from the hostel before police could reach the hostel on getting a call in the anti-ragging cell.

 "We had a called up anti-ragging cell of police when seniors started troubling us. Police did come, but he managed to escape from the hostel,'' an aggrieved student said. College principal V V Chhikara remained inaccessible for media. Hostel warden Surender Sehrawat however confirmed the suspension of Chetan Yadav. "The principal is out of station. We can only say that the college has suspended a student, against whom a ragging complaint was received,'' said Sehrawat.

He, however, expressed inability to comment further. Kuruksehtra SP Rakesh Arya confirmed the incident, but maintained that police have not got any complaint so far. "Our SHO had visited the spot. No case was registered as neither the victim students nor the college authorities lodged any formal complaint against anybody regarding the incident,'' said Arya.

Engineering diploma student alleges ragging

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AMBALA: A student of diploma in engineering in a private polytechnic on Friday accused his seniors of ragging by disrobing him under the garb of introduction session in institute premises in Mullana township of Ambala.

In his complaint lodged with Mullana police station, the victim, a student of Shivalik Polytechnic, also accused senior students, studying in final year of various branches of engineering, of thrashing him and making casteist remarks when he resisted their pressure on Friday. "The seniors have forced me to take off pants four times in the recent past.

I was forced to lodge the complaint as things went to extreme levels today," the victim said in his complaint. "Fear of parents, who would have asked me to stay back at home, forced me to tolerate the wrongs by seniors for a long time,", the victim told this reporter, while referring to reasons for delay in filing the complaint. When contacted, inspector Ranbir Singh, station house officer (SHO) of Mullana police station, confirmed receipt of the complaint. "Currently, we are in Naraingarh for election duty in connection with Youth Congress elections.

My colleagues have discussed the complaint with me. We have started investigations and appropriate action will follow," he said. Principal of the polytechnic, N K Puri, however expressed ignorance about the incident. "We have not received any complaint from the victim or his family members so far. We observe zero tolerance towards incidents like ragging. Secondly, we are duty-bound to take action following court orders in this regard," he said.

Hisar ragging: Student thrashed, ends up in hospital

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Hisar: A student of second year, Civil Diploma course in Shivalik Sikshan Sansthan, Hisar has alleged that he was subjected to ragging.

Ravindra Kumar has complained that his seniors misbehaved with him ever since he enrolled in the course. Kumar claims that he complained to the authorities in his institute but no action was taken. Talking to Bhaskar News, Kumar said he hails from a poor family and he lost his father in 2010.

He tolerated his seniors’ bad behavior towards him as he didn’t want to disrupt studies, he further said. On Thursday, Kumar was writing his session papers when he received a call asking him to come downstairs. When he went downstairs, a student took him outside the college on a bike. There, Kumar was surrounded by around a dozen students who thrashed him. Ravindra has told police that the students abused him and called him caste-names.

He fell unconscious and Kumar’s friends took him to a nearby hospital when they found him. Ravindra said earlier, he has been asked to pull down his trousers several times in the college.

Eight students expelled for ragging

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Eight senior students of Chandigarh College of Architecture (CCA), Sector 12, have been expelled from their hostel and debarred from attending classes for a month on charges of ragging. These students are Abhi Garg, Saurabh Singh, Raghav, Parthiv Das, Siddharth, Sanchit, Sashank and Raktim. Four of them study in the third year, three in the second and one in final year.

They allegedly indulged in ragging of five students of the first year the whole of Monday night. Following complaints by them on anti-ragging helpline numbers, a preliminary inquiry was held which found the five students were subjected to ragging at the boys’ hostel.

 College sources said the guilty students will have to repeat the semester as they will not be able to complete 75 per cent attendance because they have been ordered to stay away from classes for a month.

College Principal Pradeep Bhagat said, “Strict action was taken against the guilty students soon after we received the complaint from the victimised students. Eight students have been suspended from the college for a month and from the hostel forever.”

The five first-year students have been asked to shift to rooms on the ground floor of the hostel with a view to preventing ragging in the future.

 Sources said on Monday night many senior students living in the boys’ hostel came back from Delhi after taking part in a contest. These seniors then called five students of the first year from the first floor of the hostel and started ragging them. They were asked to sing, dance and do other objectionable activities. The ragging continued till morning the next day.

The junior students were threatened not to reveal these things to the authorities. But some students gathered courage and the issue reached the authorities.

Rai school suspends 21 students on ragging charges

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SONIPAT: The Motilal Nehru Sports school at Rai village of Sonipat district, has suspended 21 hostellers for harassing junior students. It had suspended three students on Friday, hours after some 40 students who had left the hostel, fearing harassment at the hands of their seniors, were found and brought back after an overnight search. The school suspended 18 others on Sunday.

 Preliminary inquiry has revealed that 18 more students of classes 11 and 12 had been threatening students of class 9, school director-cum-principal V K Varma said on Sunday. "The school will take strong action against anyone found involved in ragging or any kind of indiscipline, be it students or employees. I am waiting for the completion of the inquiry into the incident," he said.

Sonipat varsity suspends seven student on ragging charges

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 SONIPAT: The Deenbadhu Chhotu Ram university of Science and Technology, ( DCRUST) at Murthal in Sonipat district has suspended seven students following an alleged incident of ragging in the campus on Tuesday evening. 

According to information, two students -Anil Kumar of MBA and Prashant Kumar of Bio-Technology department complaint to the vice chancellor that some senior students had assaulted them with leather belts on the pretext of ragging. The victim students also went to the civil hospital for treatment of the injury marks inflicted due to being hit by the belts.

The registrar of the university RK Arora informed the mediapersons late on Tuesday night that varsity had taken action against seven students who were named by the victims. "The guilty students who are seniors of the victims have been suspended and also a probe has been assigned into the ragging incident," he said.

3 expelled from Sirsa school for ragging

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 Taking action on a ragging complaint submitted by five students of Class 9, the management of Jawahar Navodaya Vidyalaya at Odhan in Sirsa district has expelled three Class-11 students and suspended four others for a fortnight. According to the complaint, senior students treated the as servants, making them wash their clothes and utensils, besides bringing food from the mess.

When they defied the seniors' orders, the juniors were allegedly kicked and slapped. Raj Kumar, Rohtash, Subhash and two other students had given a written complaint to principal Gopal Krishan Mishra, seeking strict action against the erring students. Talking to Hindustan Times, Mishra said, "On the basis of the complaint, we have issued transfer certificates to three Class-11 students and given a strict warning to four others." Mishra added, "As per the complaint, the juniors were beaten up by senior students and made to do chores such as washing clothes.

We took the decision after consultation with higher school authorities and have banned the entry of senior students into the juniors' hostel at night. Sources said the action was taken after students accused their seniors of indulging in indecent behaviour, but the principal denied receiving any such complaint.

Five college students suspended for creating ruckus

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CHANDIGARH:Five students of a private college, in Chandigarh, were suspended, under a disciplinary action taken against them for creating ruckus and after that misguiding college authorities and police by projecting it as a ragging incident. According to the police, there was a quarrel among students of BA II and BA III students on late Tuesday. When police reached the spot, students said that third-year students were doing ragging and they also manhandled the. However, police detained four students from the spot. "The students were in an inebriated condition.

During the questioning, we discovered that no ragging took place and students were trying to misguide us. They had quarreled over some hostel issue. Accordingly, we informed the college authorities and appealed them to take action against errant students," said a police official here on Wednesday. The suspended students included two third-year and three final-year students. All of them are residing at college hostels. A senior college official said, "Earlier we came to know that some third year students were ragging the first and second year students, resulting in an uproar as a fight was initiated.

But after clarifications from police we came to know that there was no such incident of ragging. A disciplinary action has been taken and the students who were involved in creating this ruckus have been suspended."

5 girl students suspended for ragging

KAITHAL: Five girl students of Haryana College of Technology and Management here have been suspended from the institute's hostel for allegedly ragging and bullying a junior in front of students of the institute.

BTech student Aakriti, a resident of Agra (UP), had alleged that the five girls had been torturing her in various ways, including compelling her to perform certain tasks to make her video clippings.

On Tuesday, hundreds of girl students went on strike demanding action against the five girls, who were suspended from hostel on Tuesday evening.

The agitating girls said that earlier they were tolerating all this, but when a girl spoke against them, others followed. A few girls reportedly alleged that they were even forced to wash the clothes of these five girls. A girl alleged that they hit her in the arm with a knife a few days ago.

Institute principal Dr D P Gupta told TOI, "Based on the complaint, we have suspended the five girls. But we cannot conclude at this moment whether it was ragging. We have constituted a committee to probe the matter."

12 students injured in group clash at BRM College

In Bhiwani, 12 students were injured in a group clash at a local college. Freshers and second-year students of BRM College at Bahal exchanged fistcuffs on late Tuesday night.

Juniors alleged that their seniors barged into their hostel rooms and attacked them with iron rods and sticks. They alleged that they were being forced to smoke cigarettes and sing vulgar songs.

The college principal, however, rubbished the ragging claims, saying old enmity was the reason behind the fight.

Haryana: Student stabbed for resisting ragging attempt

Panipat: In a shocking incident, a first-year student of the RN Engineering College, Matloda, was stabbed by his seniors outside college gates on Wednesday afternoon after he resisted their attempt to rag him.

The victim has suffered injuries in stomach and legs. The farmers working on the nearby fields took the injured boy to the Panipat Civil Hospital.

The victim Deepak, a first-year student of Medical Trade, said that his seniors had tried to remove his pants when he went bathroom earlier in the day. Though, they left when Deepak objected, but, they had other plans.

At 3pm around 15-16 students stopped and stabbed him with knife as Deepak stepped out of the college premises.

The police did not turn up till late at night to record the Deepak’s statement after the incident.

Even the college authority has turned a blind eye towards the incident. No one from the college administration came to the hospital or inquired about the victim’s condition. When the Bhaskar team tried to contact the college chairman AR Sharma his phone was switched off.

3 booked for ragging in Haryana

Three students have been booked for assaulting a youth, who was allegedly stabbed and ragged outside a college campus, said the police on Tuesday.



A case has been registered under various sections of the IPC against the three students of Khalsa College for allegedly stabbing Daler Singh outside the college campus when he had gone there to seek admission to a postgraduate course, they said.

Singh was admitted to hospital with stab wounds. In his complaint, Singh, who did his graduation from the same college, alleged that he and two of his companions were asked to remove their trousers in front of girl students.“A case for allegedly stabbing and beating has been registered against the trio,” Deputy Superintendent of Police Krishan Hooda said.

College Principal Ravinder Kaur, however, told reporters that no incident of ragging had taken place inside the college premises.

Ragging' at KU, two students assaulted

Vijay Sabharwal, TNN, Feb 12, 2011, 03.24am IST

KURUKSHETRA: Embarrassed over an incident of alleged ragging of two BA II year hostellers, Kurukshetra University officials as well as a police party carried out surprise raids at all KU hostels during the wee hours of Friday and rounded up seven outsiders, who had occupied rooms in the hostel premises.

The action followed complaints by Sandeep, a hosteller from Narnaul and Rajesh, a native from Gulha-Cheeka, that 10-15 senior students, including some outsiders, had assaulted and humiliated them on Wednesday night in their room in Bhim Bhawan hostel.

Harassed student attempts suicide

Chandigarh, Dec 6, DHNS:

A second year student of a polytechnic college in Haryana attempted suicide by consuming poison after he was allegedly harassed by his seniors. Although Jagtar Singh, the victim, is said to be out of danger, the incident tends to expose the frail system to check ragging activities in the college.

Singh is a student of Guru Nanak Polytechnic College at Tohana in Haryana. His brother Jaswinder Singh has blamed the college management for shielding the accused students. He has also accused the college of ignoring complaints made by Singh in this regard.

Two Haryana students suspended for ragging

2010-08-19 15:10:00

Aug 19 (IANS) A state-run polytechnic for boys here has suspended two students on charges of ragging a junior, officials here said Thursday.

The accused were identified as Ajay Kumar and Parveen, both final year students of the mechanical stream, the officials said. They were suspended on the direction of the anti-ragging cell of the University Grants Commission (UGC).

'A first year student of the electronics stream had told his friend studying in the same polytechnic about the ragging incident. Following this, an anonymous mail was sent to the anti-ragging cell of the UGC,' an official of the polytechnic said.

'The students had named two others (besides the suspended students) in the complaint and accused them of ragging and beating. Following this we got directions from the UGC to inquire into the matter.'

The polytechnic administration has constituted a three-member committee to investigate the ragging case.

Sudhir Gilhotra, principal of this institute, said, 'Incidents of ragging are totally intolerable in our polytechnic and we make it clear to our students right at the time of admission.'

'We have suspended the accused students with immediate effect. Appropriate action will be taken against them once the inquiry committee submits its report,' stated Gilhotra.

Student 'ragged' for not smoking

MOHALI: A student of Rayat and Bahra Engineering College, Mohali, has alleged that he was ragged and mercilessly beaten up by his seniors when he refused to smoke and dance in front of them. However, Mohali police as well as college authorities are maintaining that it was a case of group rivalry as the student was not thrashed by his seniors but nine freshers. Police have reportedly rounded up two persons.

On Tuesday, Gurinder Singh approached the police stating that he was singled out by nine students of his college, who forced him to smoke and dance for them. The victim, Sector 7 resident of Chandigarh, stated that he was thrashed when he refused to do the same. Gurinder was immediately taken to civil hospital, Kharar, where his condition was stated to be stable.

Police have registered a case against the nine students— Amrik, Mohni, Harman Singh, Sakhi and five other unidentified youths—under sections 341, 323, 324, 506, 148, 149, 295 of the IPC at Kharar police station. Dismissing the incident as a case of group rivalry, spokesperson of Rayat and Bahra Engineering College, Sanjeev Tejpal, stated that it was not a case of ragging. “The college has initiated an internal inquiry and would soon unravel the details. We witnessed such a group clash last year as well, when a massive fight had broken out between two rival groups. Since only one person has been singled out this time, it appeared to be a case of ragging,” he added. Stating that the college has also lodged a complaint, Tejpal said that it would soon be obvious that it was not a ragging incident.

Meanwhile, Kharar SHO Harsimranjit Singh Bal said two students— Harmanjot Singh and Amrik Singh— had already been arrested in the case, while efforts were on to nab others too. “Gurinder was attacked with a sharp-edged weapon. He is undergoing treatment at civil hospital, Kharar,” he added.

During initial probe, it was found that the youths accused of ragging had recently joined the college. “They have denied any involvement. We suspect another youth, Rana, to be behind the fight. Efforts are on to nab him,” the SHO stated.

“Those arrested are first-year students, who joined the college 10 days ago,” the SHO said, adding that it would
soon become clear whether it was a case of ragging or group rivalry.

Haryana varsity suspends three students for ragging

June 2nd, 2010 - 12:38 am ICT by IANS -

(Haryana), June 1 (IANS) Three MBA students were Tuesday suspended by the vice-chancellor of the Maharshi Dayanand University (MDU) here for ragging their juniors, officials said.
The three students - Aman Redhu, Surender Bishnoi and Anil Dalal - were accused of physically harassing and intimidating two junior students of the Institute of Management Studies and Research (IMSR) here.

“Such acts are totally intolerable in our institutions and strict action will be taken against the errant students. We have suspended the students with immediate effect and started a probe into the matter,” said MDU vice-chancellor R.P. Hooda.

“We have banned their entry into the varsity campus till further orders. The hostel rooms of the accused have been sealed by the authorities concerned and we have withheld the results of their last examination,” he added.

Second ragging incident in a week

9 Sep 2009, 0948 hrs IST

In yet another case of ragging, a first year student was ragged in the deemed University of Faridabad, Haryana. The victim Dheeraj Sanghwan, a first year Engineering student of CITM College was reportedly stripped and beaten by seniors for disobeying them.

The victim says he was stripped and beaten with sticks because of his "disobedience" to his seniors. The wounds on his body are clear evidence of the beating.

The police have notified about the incident. Dheeraj is a resident of Bhiwani.