All these named within the FIR are fourth-year college students. (Representational)
Kanpur:
An FIR was registered on Thursday in opposition to eight final-year engineering college students of Harcourt Butler Technical College (HBTU) on the cost of try and homicide for allegedly beating their juniors when they didn’t adhere to their directions to “take away garments”.
The FIR has been registered in opposition to the seniors by a third-year pupil of BTech Electronics at Nawabganj police station, below BNS sections 109 (try and homicide), 115 (2) voluntarily causes damage, 125 (an act so rashly as to hazard human life), 191 (2) rioting, 351 (3) felony intimidation and 352 (deliberately insults) other than ragging prices on this connection, Deputy Commissioner of Police (Central) Dinesh Tripathi stated.
All these named within the FIR are fourth-year college students.
In his FIR, the scholar alleged that his classmate acquired a name from seniors to return with him and one other classmate to Abdul Kalam Hostel to get pleasure from a ‘birthday celebration” which is a “code language” for ragging.
The state of affairs escalated when the seniors requested them to take off their garments, which they refused. “We instructed them that they need to be spared as that they had already confronted ragging within the first yr of their admission. Offended over the refusal, the seniors got here with sticks, belts, and iron rods and began beating them,” the FIR stated.
Directions have been issued to name the accused college students. They are going to be questioned to work out the case, the DCP stated.
The HBTU administration has additionally began the inquiry into the matter to determine whether or not it was a ragging case or not, stated an official.
In ragging, usually, first-year college students are victims however on this case, the FIR was lodged by the third-year pupil in opposition to final-year college students, he stated.
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