Seniors accused of taking it too far

Seniors accused of taking it too far

VADODARA: Allegations of ragging rocked M S University's Faculty of Science on Monday. It all started with student leaders at the faculty alleging that senior students enrolled in Master of Science (M Sc) course ragged some of their juniors in classes in physics department on Monday morning.

A group of students led by Harikrishna Rao alleged that a few students of MSc (final) had ragged MSc (previous) students in physics department. However, senior students led by Nikhit Desmukh countered them stating that the allegations were baseless.

Desmukh showed signatures of 30 students enrolled in MSc (previous) who stated that they had neither been ragged nor had the seniors misbehaved with them.

"I have topped last year and was there to meet juniors so that we could hand over previous year's subject material to them. If that is considered ragging then we have nothing to argue against," he said.

Sources in the faculty, however, link the allegations with forthcoming MSU Students Union elections. MSUSU elections are likely to be held before September 1 and several student leaders are raking up one or another issue to remain in limelight. Sources suggest both Rao and Desmukh are eyeing the post of faculty general secretary at science faculty.

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