The Nadakkavu police have registered a case against six third-year students of Holy Cross Institute of Management and Technology at Eranhipalam in Kozhikode city, Kerala, on charges of ragging a first-year BBA student on the campus on February 14.
The case was registered on Tuesday (February 18) evening based on the victim’s complaint. The incident occurred after a cultural event held on the basketball court around 6:45 p.m.
The six senior students allegedly demanded that the fresher remove the sunglasses he had worn for the programme. When he refused, two seniors forcibly removed his sunglasses and then beat and kicked him, according to the FIR.
Two students suspended
Shiny George, principal of the institute, said the incident was reported to the police on February 14 itself. Based on the report of the Anti-Ragging Committee and after reviewing the closed-circuit television footage, two students were suspended. Initially, disciplinary action was taken against six students, she said.
The police have charged the six suspects under Sections 126 (2) (wrongful restraint), 115 (2) (voluntarily causing hurt), and 3 (5) (when a criminal act is done by several persons in furtherance of a common intention) of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, and Section 4 (whoever commits, participates in, abets or propagates ragging within, or without, any educational institution shall, on conviction, be punished with imprisonment for a term that may extend to two years and shall also be liable to a fine that may extend to ten thousand rupees) of the Kerala Prohibition of Ragging Act.
