Police registered a case against four resident doctors of the Government Medical College (GMC) in Gujarat’s Surat on Tuesday for their alleged involvement in the ragging of a 30-year old first-year student, who died by suicide, officials said.
Police registered a case against four resident doctors in Surat for their alleged involvement in the ragging of a 30-year old first-year student, who died by suicide.
Health Minister Pansheriya on Sunday directed the college authorities to look into the matter urgently and carry out a probe to ascertain the exact reason behind the victim’s extreme step. They detained them there illegally for two hours, subjecting them to continuous mental harassment and humiliating them with crude remarks, stated the police complaint by the institute. GMC Dean, Dr Jayesh Brahmbhatt said that an FIR was registered at the Khatodra police station against the four students found guilty by the institute’s anti-ragging committee following an incident of ragging in the institute’s microbiology department so that further legal action can be taken.
The FIR was registered against four second-year PG students of the GMC affiliated to New Civil Hospital after Harsh Pandya was found hanging by the ceiling of his hostel room on the morning of August 9, an official of Khatodara police station said. The accused were booked under sections 127 (2), 352 and 54 of the Bharatiya Nyay Sanhita (BNS) pertaining to wrongful confinement, intentional insult and abettor present at the scene of the crime, the police official said.
There was no evidence of physical abuse or that death resulted from such abuse, according to the committee.
