Anil Methania was a first-year pupil at GMERS Medical Faculty and Hospital in Dharpur Patan
Patan (Gujarat):
Police on Monday arrested 15 second-year college students of a medical faculty in Gujarat’s Patan district and charged them with culpable murder not amounting to homicide after the demise of their junior allegedly as a result of ragging, an official stated.
The accused, all second-year MBBS college students, allegedly made a few of their juniors, together with the sufferer, Anil Methaniya (18), stand in a hostel room for greater than three hours on Saturday night time and subjected them to “psychological and bodily torture,” as per the First Data Report (FIR) filed on a grievance by faculty authorities.
They had been booked for culpable murder not amounting to homicide amongst different offences, it stated.
“We’ve got arrested all of the 15 accused,” inspector of the Balisana police station in Patan, PJ Solanki, stated.
After the submitting of the FIR, the accused college students had been suspended from their hostel and tutorial actions till additional orders, stated officers from the GMERS Medical Faculty and Hospital, the place the incident occurred, at Dharpur in Patan district.
Methaniya, a first-year MBBS pupil, fell unconscious and died allegedly after being made to face for 3 hours throughout a ragging session by his seniors at a hostel of the faculty on Saturday night time, the institute’s dean, Dr Hardik Shah, stated on Sunday.
The faculty’s anti-ragging committee chaired by Dr Shah recorded the statements of 26 college students — 11 of the first-year and 15 of the second-year — in reference to the incident.
The committee discovered 11 first-year college students had been subjected to ragging by a bunch of 15 seniors from the second-year, a school official stated on Monday.
As per the FIR lodged on the Balisana police station shortly after midnight on Monday, the 15 accused known as 11 first-year college students, together with Methaniya and his classmates, to a hostel room on Saturday night time for “introduction”.
They made the juniors stand for almost three-and-a half hours whereas forcing them to sing, dance, utter abusive phrases and never go away the room, stated the police doc.
Methaniya’s well being deteriorated as the scholars had been subjected to psychological and bodily torture. The sufferer fainted and collapsed at round midnight. He was rushed to a hospital the place medical doctors declared him introduced lifeless, the FIR acknowledged.
Based mostly on a grievance by the faculty’s further dean, Dr Anil Bhathija, an FIR was lodged in opposition to 15 college students beneath the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita (BNS) sections for culpable murder not amounting to homicide, wrongful confinement, illegal meeting, and utilizing obscene phrases.
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