IGIMS suspends 15 students for ragging
Shuchismita Chakraborty Jul 20, 2018 00:00 IST
A file picture of police evicting students from the IGIMS campus on July 5 after the administration shut down the hostel over the ragging episode
Patna: Indira Gandhi Institute of Medical Sciences (IGIMS) on Thursday suspended 15 MBBS students of the 2013, 2014 and 2015 batch in an unprecedented move against a ragging incident that rocked the campus early July.
The anti-ragging committee of the IGIMS on Wednesday night recommended suspension of 15 MBBS students of the three batches against whom the 2016 batch students lodged an FIR at Shastri Nagar police station on July 4.
In another complaint to the University Grants Commission's National Anti-Ragging Helpline and Medical Council of India (MCI), the students stated they were physically and mentally harassed by senior MBBS students of 2013, 2014 and 2015 batch on July 3 midnight.
The 2016 batch students had also provided the names of the seniors in the complaint who allegedly ragged them for two consecutive days on the campus.
'"They ragged the 2016 batch students brutally on July 3 and on July 4. They beat up the students and one of them suffered a shoulder injury. The seniors forced us to shed our clothes and asked us to walk nude in the field. They ragged us in the hostel and on the college campus.' This is what have been mentioned in the complaint," said a source.
The institute on Thursday directed the suspended students to leave the campus immediately and ordered them to submit an affidavit attested by a first-class magistrate stating they would not indulge in ragging in future, failing which a harsh disciplinary action, which the authority deems fit, would be taken against them.
According to sources, the 2016 batch students lodged an FIR at the Shastri Nagar police station and registered a complaint with the University Grants Commission's National Anti-Ragging Helpline and Medical Council of India online instead of informing the college authorities after ragging was first reported at the new boys' hostel on July 4 night. The 2016 batch students had provided names of the accused in the FIR and also in the complaint sent to the national anti-ragging cell.
"The UGC National Anti-Ragging Helpline has sent us a summary of the ragging episode and were continuously sending us mails to inquire about our stand on it," said IGIMS principal Ranjit Guha.
He added: "We got to know later that students had lodged an FIR in this connection. After the FIR, we formed an internal committee which interrogated the students and those present at the hostel where the incident occurred. Written statements were also taken. Information that was revealed in the investigation was communicated to the national anti-ragging committee. The anti-ragging committee, which was later handed over the matter, again interrogated the students and took their written statements and other witnesses. The anti-ragging committee local administrative official, an MBBS boy student, MBBS girl student, faculty member, a member of press among other varied members, recommended the decision to suspend all the 15 students with immediate effect till further orders and it also recommended that the accused students should submit the affidavit. We implemented the anti-raging committee's order."
A senior official with the IGIMS said: "The UGC national anti-ragging helpline had been sent the recommendation of the anti-ragging committee of the IGIMS. If we would have not implemented the decision, the UGC national helpline would have taken the matter in their own hands and then the matter would have been worse for the students."
Shuchismita Chakraborty Jul 20, 2018 00:00 IST
A file picture of police evicting students from the IGIMS campus on July 5 after the administration shut down the hostel over the ragging episode
Patna: Indira Gandhi Institute of Medical Sciences (IGIMS) on Thursday suspended 15 MBBS students of the 2013, 2014 and 2015 batch in an unprecedented move against a ragging incident that rocked the campus early July.
The anti-ragging committee of the IGIMS on Wednesday night recommended suspension of 15 MBBS students of the three batches against whom the 2016 batch students lodged an FIR at Shastri Nagar police station on July 4.
In another complaint to the University Grants Commission's National Anti-Ragging Helpline and Medical Council of India (MCI), the students stated they were physically and mentally harassed by senior MBBS students of 2013, 2014 and 2015 batch on July 3 midnight.
The 2016 batch students had also provided the names of the seniors in the complaint who allegedly ragged them for two consecutive days on the campus.
'"They ragged the 2016 batch students brutally on July 3 and on July 4. They beat up the students and one of them suffered a shoulder injury. The seniors forced us to shed our clothes and asked us to walk nude in the field. They ragged us in the hostel and on the college campus.' This is what have been mentioned in the complaint," said a source.
The institute on Thursday directed the suspended students to leave the campus immediately and ordered them to submit an affidavit attested by a first-class magistrate stating they would not indulge in ragging in future, failing which a harsh disciplinary action, which the authority deems fit, would be taken against them.
According to sources, the 2016 batch students lodged an FIR at the Shastri Nagar police station and registered a complaint with the University Grants Commission's National Anti-Ragging Helpline and Medical Council of India online instead of informing the college authorities after ragging was first reported at the new boys' hostel on July 4 night. The 2016 batch students had provided names of the accused in the FIR and also in the complaint sent to the national anti-ragging cell.
"The UGC National Anti-Ragging Helpline has sent us a summary of the ragging episode and were continuously sending us mails to inquire about our stand on it," said IGIMS principal Ranjit Guha.
He added: "We got to know later that students had lodged an FIR in this connection. After the FIR, we formed an internal committee which interrogated the students and those present at the hostel where the incident occurred. Written statements were also taken. Information that was revealed in the investigation was communicated to the national anti-ragging committee. The anti-ragging committee, which was later handed over the matter, again interrogated the students and took their written statements and other witnesses. The anti-ragging committee local administrative official, an MBBS boy student, MBBS girl student, faculty member, a member of press among other varied members, recommended the decision to suspend all the 15 students with immediate effect till further orders and it also recommended that the accused students should submit the affidavit. We implemented the anti-raging committee's order."
A senior official with the IGIMS said: "The UGC national anti-ragging helpline had been sent the recommendation of the anti-ragging committee of the IGIMS. If we would have not implemented the decision, the UGC national helpline would have taken the matter in their own hands and then the matter would have been worse for the students."
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