Coimbatore: Seven college students of a number one engineering school within the metropolis had been arrested for ragging a second-year scholar on Wednesday.
The sufferer, learning at PSG Faculty of Expertise, was allegedly assaulted and compelled to take away his costume on Monday within the school hostel.
The seven college students then tonsured the top of the sufferer, a local of Tirupur. The incident got here to gentle after the sufferer knowledgeable his mother and father, who lodged a police grievance on Tuesday evening.
The school authorities suspended the seven college students as quickly as a police grievance was lodged.
The seven arrested had been recognized as Ram Santhosh, 22, B Naveen alias Yalish, 22, A Mohamed Dilparshah, 21, G Dharanidharan, 20, B Iyappan, 20, S Manikandan, 20, and P Nithyanandarajan, 20
Whereas two of them are second-year college students, one is a third-year scholar, and the remainder are final-year college students.
In keeping with police, the sufferer, staying within the hostel, was confronted by the seven college students on Monday night. They demanded cash from him to purchase alcohol. After he refused, he was overwhelmed up and brought to the room of one of many seniors. There, they pressured him to take away his costume and tonsured his head. Although he resisted, two college students held his palms whereas others went tonsured his head.
Legislation stipulates 2-year jail in ragging case Quickly after he was let off within the wee hours of Tuesday, he rushed to his room and knowledgeable his pals. Subsequently, he known as up his mother and father, who got here to Coimbatore. They went to the Peelamedu police station and lodged a grievance.
Police have booked the seven college students underneath a number of counts of IPC, together with sections 355 (assault or legal pressure with intent to dishonour individual, in any other case than on grave provocation), 506 (i) (legal intimidation), 342 (wrongful confinement), as effectively the
Tamil Nadu Prohibition of Ragging Act, 1997. The anti-ragging act stipulates a most of two-year imprisonment. A police officer mentioned {that a} detailed investigation can be carried out.