A police case was registered after a Plus One student (equivalent to Class 11) in Kerala’s Kannur district alleged that he was a victim of ragging. The police registered an FIR against five students, all from the district, under various sections of the Bharat Nyay Samhita, including rioting with deadly weapon, wrongfully restraining another person, voluntarily causing hurt and unlawful assembly.
According to the Kolavallur police, Muhammed Nihal, a Plus One student at Kolavallur PR Memorial School said he had broken arm after he was beaten up.
The complaint stated that Nihal’s hand was broken in an attack after five students assaulted him saying he wasn’t showing enough respect to his seniors. According to the complaint, the senior students ambushed him as a group and thrashed him.
Nihal has been admitted to Thalassery Cooperative Hospital.
The new case was reported just two days after five third-year students of a nursing college in Kottayam were arrested for brutal torture of first-year students in the name of ragging. The police said the complaint by the student stated the ragging began in November 2024.
A video of one of the ragging sessions, in which a student was being tortured, also emerged.
Meanwhile, the Opposition alleged that the accused in the case had links to the ruling Left party’s student wing, Students Federation of India.
Source: India Today