It has been learnt that senior students would be expelled from medical college in the Kerala ragging case.
The case came into light after visuals of the brutal ragging of a junior student at the Government Nursing College surfaced on Thursday, showing the victim being tied to a cot and his body repeatedly pierced with a compass.
The victim was stripped half-naked and subjected to horrifying acts, including having dumbbells placed on his private parts after being tied to a cot and having facial cream poured into his mouth, as per the footage.
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The abuse took place in the boys' hostel targeting first-year nursing students. The complaint also suggests that senior students regularly extorted money from juniors on Sundays to buy alcohol and frequently assaulted them.
Five third-year students have been arrested in the case.
They were arrested after a case was registered under the Prohibition of Ragging Act, following a complaint that ragging had been ongoing for nearly three months at the nursing institute, which operates under the Government Medical College.
The accused have also been booked under Sections 118(1) (intentionally causing hurt using dangerous weapons or means), 308(2) (punishment for extortion), and 351(1) (criminal intimidation) of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita (BNS), 2023, the police said.
The arrested are currently in the district jail after being remanded by a court here.
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