Ragging victim identifies 5 senior students

Ragging victim identifies 5 senior students
Wednesday October 31 2007 03:55 IST
EXPRESS NEWS SERVICE


THRISSUR: The ragging victim at Mannuthy Veterinary College under the Kerala Agricultural University, Manu, on Tuesday identified five senior students of the college who ragged him in the college hostel last week.

He identified them from the photo album of the students shown to him. The identified students are Praveen P Varghese, Arun Raj MR, Ebin B Mathews, R Assim and Ajas Mohammed.

Manu, hailing from Neyyatinkara, accompanied by R Chandrasekharan, state president of Vaikundaswami Dharmapracharana Sabha and four other officebearers of the organisation met the Ollur Circle Inspector on Tuesday morning and demanded urgent action against the senior students tortured Manu.

They also urged for protection to Manu for continuing his studies in the college. After getting an assurance of action by the police, they met the Dean of Veterinary College putting forward the same demands.

Chandrasekharan said that the response from the Dean on their demand of action was not satisfactory. Manu along with his companions sat on a dharna in front of the Dean’s office for two hours in protest against the Dean’s reaction.

However, the police intervened and showed Manu the photo album of the senior students from which he identified the five students who ragged him.

He said that the police then searched for the identified students in the college hostel. But by the time the police reached the hostel, the students had escaped. Chandrasekharan said that the police had assured them that the culprits identified would be arrested within two days.

Meanwhile, there are reports of ragging of junior students by seniors at Amala Medical College and Research Institute and Vaidyaratnam Ayurveda College in the district.

In the cases of these two institutions, the college authorities have already filed complaints with concerned police stations and investigations are in progress.