Click to play videoBhubaneswar (Orissa): With spinal injury, multiple fractures and a paralysed leg, it will be many months before 19-year-old Siba Shanker can walk again.
The first year student of Bhubaneswar's Orissa University of Agriculture and Technology was allegedly pushed by his seniors from the hostel roof during a ragging session.
"I was pushed from the roof by my seniors. I have seen them but they do not introduce themselves to us with their original names," says he.
Even as he lies in hospital bed, another student in Bhubaneswar is dead allegedly because of ragging.
Twenty-one-year-old Bijay Kumar Maharathy was a first year student in Bhubaneswar's Indira Gandhi Institute of Pharmaceutical Science. His family has lodged an FIR saying Bijay was poisoned after being severely ragged by seniors.
"We suspect that he was severely ragged because doctors say he has been poisoned to death," says Bijay's uncle, Bhawani Prasad Nayak.
However, in both cases, police say there is no concrete evidence to move against the guilty. Thus no one has been arrested so far.
Nonetheless, the police is continuing investigation and has assured strong action against those who indulge in such acts.
Says Khurda SP, Amitabh Thakur, "These two incidents should be a strong warning for all the students who indulge in such acts and the punishment to the culprits will be a lesson for all of them."
Though ragging has been banned in campuses and though the Orissa government has issued serious warning to educational institutions, the ragging menace seems to be far from over.
(With inputs from Saroj Padhi in Sambalpur and Avneet Bhatia in New Delhi)
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