Another ragging case: Junior beaten up with iron rods

BRUTAL RAGGING: A 21-yr-old engineering student was beaten up with iron rods by his seniors.

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New Delhi: Yet another brutal case of ragging has been reported in an engineering institute campus near the Capital.

Twenty-one year old, B-tech student, Mohammad Wasim was allegedly beaten up with iron rods by a group of seniors late on Monday night. The incident has left both Wasim and his parents shell shocked.

“Twenty-five of them broke in and beat me up,” says Wasim.

“We don’t want him to study. We want to see him alive. He can become a labourer,” says Wasim’s father, Mohd Ashfaq.

Wasim says he was being harassed by seniors for over a year and that his parents had lodged an official complaint with college authorities just a week ago, but nothing was done about it.

The college has now suspended nine students in the case. Police have registered an FIR but have made no arrests so far. They even doubt if the case is genuine.

“It is not known why the seniors beat him up. A FIR has been registered and action will be taken against the suspects,” says GB Nagar, SP Rural Surender Kumar.

The UGC has also finalized its anti-ragging regulations, according to which a student can be expelled and debarred from admission for ragging. The guilty can also be fined upto Rs 2.5 lakh.

“The purpose is to initiate legislation against ragging and set up a helpline,” says UGC chairperson Sukhdeo Thorat.