16 students suspended for ragging in Madhya Pradesh

September 15th, 2009 VARANASI - Four engineering students of the Banaras Hindu University (BHU) here have been booked for allegedly ragging a first year student outside the varsity campus, police said Tuesday. The four students -- two of B.

September 10th, 2009 RAIPUR - Five tribal students of a government-run school in Chhattisgarh's Kanker district have been suspended for ragging after over a dozen junior students complained that they were forced by the seniors to stroll naked in the hostel complex and beaten, an official said. The five suspended students were studying in Class 10.

September 10th, 2009 LUCKNOW - Six students of a private engineering college have been detained for allegedly ragging a student in Uttar Pradesh's Mathura district, police said Thursday. Police detained the six students, who are in their second year at Ganeshi Lal Narayandas Institute of Technology, Wednesday night for ragging Vikas Parashar, a first year student.

August 19th, 2009 NEW DELHI - The Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) here Wednesday rusticated nine students for two years and expelled 10 others from the hostel for a year for ragging their juniors. We have completed the investigation.

August 3rd, 2009 CHANDIGARH - Two engineering students from the Panjab University (PU) here were sent to jail Monday for allegedly ragging a junior student, police said. A case was registered against two second-year students of University Institute of Engineering Technology (UIET) department of the PU.

August 2nd, 2009 CHANDIGARH - A case has been registered against a second-year engineering student of the Panjab University (PU) for allegedly ragging his junior, police said Sunday. According to the police, Saurab Nandal of Rohtak town in Haryana studying here at University Institute of Engineering and Technology (UIET) was booked after the hostel warden registered a formal complaint against him.

July 20th, 2009 NEW DELHI - The ugly practice of ragging is far from being subdued in spite of court directives as a new report released Monday revealed that during the past 12 months the country witnessed 88 cases of ragging of which 12 were fatal. Andhra Pradesh is the worst affected.

July 18th, 2009 SHIMLA - A Himachal Pradesh court Saturday granted bail to two students of a college who were arrested for ragging a fresher, police said. "Two students of a government college in Bilaspur town were granted bail by a court this (Saturday) evening.

July 18th, 2009 HYDERABAD - Eight students of the Sri Venkateswara University in Tirupati have been arrested and suspended for ragging their juniors, authorities said Saturday. Police said the arrests were made late Friday night following a complaint by few students of the first year M.Com.

July 15th, 2009 SHIMLA - Two students of a Himachal Pradesh college have been booked for ragging their junior, police said Wednesday. The police swung into action after Surya Chandel, a first-year student of a government college in Bilaspur town, alleged that two seniors ragged him along with two outsiders Monday, Superintendent of Police Kuldip Sharma said.

May 5th, 2009 SHIMLA - Two students of a high school in Himachal Pradesh have been named in a police case under the new anti-ragging ordinance, which was promulgated after the killing of a student following ragging. The two students - not identified as they are minors - of Class 11 of the Sanatan Dharam Senior Secondary School here face the charge of bullying and manhandling a Class 10 student last week.

May 3rd, 2009 NEW DELHI - President Pratibha Patil, who has voiced concern over the rising incidents of ragging, has assured the parents of 19-year-old Aman Kachru who died March 8 due to ragging by seniors in a Himachal Pradesh college that universities across the country would be sensitised about the rules on ragging. The president gave this assurance to Rajendra Kachru, the father of Aman, and said she would write to all the governors, who are also chancellors of universities in their respective states, to sensitise the institutions on the menace, officer on special duty (OSD) at Rashtrapati Bhawan Archana Datta said.

March 21st, 2009 SHIMLA - Two interns of a medical college here were Friday suspended for allegedly ragging and manhandling a first-year student, the incident coming close on the heels of a 19-year-old medical student losing his life to the scourge. Two MBBS interns - Nikhil Verma and Sushant Sharma - of the Indira Gandhi Medical College (IGMC) were suspended from their internship for misbehaving with a junior Thursday night after consuming alcohol, said college principal Surinder Kashyap.

January 12th, 2009 RAIPUR - At least 14 students of a Chhattisgarh college were arrested here Tuesday for assaulting their juniors, the police said. The students of Government Science College were suspended Saturday by the college authorities, a day after the police registered a case against them for ragging their juniors at a hostel.

January 9th, 2009 RAIPUR - Fourteen students at a college in the city were Saturday suspended by the authorities, a day after the police registered a case against them for ragging their juniors throughout the night. Government Science College principal Geeta Tiwari called a meeting of the college's anti-ragging committee, which decided to suspend the 14 students, who are on the run since they slapped 14 juniors about 90 times one by one in the institute's Shastri hostel Wednesday night.