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Management student ragged, beaten and blinded

TimePublished on Sat, Apr 11, 2009 at 12:05, Updated on Sun, Apr 12, 2009 at 01:22 in India section

PLEAS AND PRAYERS: A student paints a banner during a campaign against ragging in New Delhi.

PLEAS AND PRAYERS: A student paints a banner during a campaign against ragging in New Delhi.


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New Delhi: A 19-year-old management student may have permanently lost his vision after his seniors beat him up in a Coimbatore college last month.

Akhil Dev alleges his senior students at the PSG College of Arts and Science punched him in the eyes and hit him on his head with a steel chair and a frying pan on March 7.

Dev, a student of Business Management and Information Systems at the college, was allegedly assaulted after he refused to pay the senior students money for the second time after giving them Rs 3,000.

“On March 7, at 11 pm, they to came to my room and locked my friends outside. They told me to remove my shirt, which I did. Then they asked me to lick their shoes and when I bent down they started hitting me on my back,” Dev told CNN-IBN.

“They hit me with whatever they could find in that room. (Doctors say) there has been permanent damage to my eyesight,” he said.

Doctors say Dev has nine holes in his retinas and may lose his eyesight by the time he turns 25.

The college, which has an anti-ragging cell, has suspended five students after a complaint by Dev’s parents against them. A police complaint has also been registered against the five students.

Society Against Violence in Education (SAVE), the country's only registered anti-ragging NGO, has calculated that nine teenagers are killed every year due to ragging while hundreds of them get seriously injured, hospitalised or disabled due to ragging by their seniors in colleges.

In February this year, taking serious note of an alarming rise in incidents of ragging in educational institutions across the country, the Supreme Court accepted the recommendations of the KR Raghavan Committee to curb the menace.

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