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Five senior nursing students at the Government Nursing College in Kottayam (Kerala) have been arrested for allegedly harassing first-year students. A horrific ragging incident has rocked Kerala and the entire country due to its scale of brutality. The incident took place at Government Nursing College in Kottayam where first year students were subjected to physical and mental abuse. They were stripped naked; dumbbells hung from their private parts; stabbed with geometry box compasses; and. beaten over three months.
Unable to bear the harassment any longer, first-year students filed a formal complaint with the Kottayam Gandhinagar police and revealed the violent acts. The arrested students have been identified as Samuel Johnson (20), Rahul Raj (22), Jeev (18), Rijil Jith (20), and Vivek (21). As per the college authorities, the accused students have been suspended. The action was taken following an inquiry conducted under the anti-ragging law.
The anti-ragging laws of the country say: “Whoever, directly or indirectly, commits or participates in or abets or propagates ragging within or, outside any educational institution shall, on conviction, be punished with imprisonment for a term which may extend to two years or with fine which may extend to ten thousand rupees or with both.”
As per the Kerala state rules, ‘Ragging’ means doing of any act, by disorderly conduct, to a student of an educational institution, which causes or is likely to cause physical or psychological harm or raising apprehension or fear or shame or embarrassment to that student and includes- (i)teasing, abusing or paying practical jokes on, or causing hurt to, such student; or(ii) asking a student to do any act or perform something which such student will not, in the ordinary course willingly, do.
‘Stripped naked, injured with sharp objects’
According to the police, the first-year students were forced to stand naked while hung dumbbells from their private parts. Then they were injured through sharp objects, including a compass from a geometry box. The harassment and brutality did not stop there. Senior students used to apply lotion to victims’ wounds, to further aggravate the pain. When the victims screamed in pain, the bottle of lotion was forcibly smeared into their mouths.
On December 13, a first-year student endured extreme physical torture. That night, the accused allegedly entered his room, tied his hands and legs, and restrained him.They then poured lotion all over his body and inflicted injuries using a divider. Raggers also forced another first-year student in the room to record the incident on a mobile phone.
Ragging was on since November: As per the complaint, the ragging began November 2024. Senior students also used to extort money from the juniors for alcohol and on refusing they used to assault the juniors.
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