10-Jun-2024 11:10 PM
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By Ashok Raina
Kangra (HP), June 10 (Reporter) A government medical college in Himachal Pradesh has expelled four senior students for indulging in ragging activities. This is their first such case of ragging in 15 years and the institute has taken strong steps to send out a message.
Nineteen-year-old Aman Satya Kachroo, a first-year MBBS student at Dr Rajendra Prashad Medical College, Tanda (Kangra), a government college in Himachal Pradesh, died on March 8, 2009, a day after he was subjected to ragging in the hostel by his four seniors — all second-year MBBS students.
Following his death the Supreme Court took cognizance and enacted an anti ragging law in the country.
That same college is back in the limelight 15 years later for the same offence with four more medical students allegedly found guilty of indulging in ragging and putting their juniors through hell.
Dr. Milap Sharma Principal of Dr. R.P.Govt. Medical College confirmed to UNI that a junior student had lodged a complaint with the Anti-Ragging Cell that he was beaten up, injured, harassed, bullied and ragged by his seniors.
Dr Sharma said that all four seniors were found guilty by a five-member Anti Ragging Committee. Two students of the 2019 batch have been expelled from the college and hostel for one year and imposed a fine of Rs. 1 lakh each, Dr. Sharma said.
The two students have been identified as Siddhant Yadav suspended from classes for one year and another Arul Sood suspended from Internship for one year. He said that each of these students have been fined Rs 1,00,000 each.
The principal said that two students of the 2021 batch were also expelled from the college for six months and fined Rs. 50,000 each. They were identified as Ragvender Bhardwaj and Bhawani Shanker.
He said that such activities will not be tolerated in any case in the college and anyone indulging in such activities will be dealt under the law of the land...////...