All these named within the FIR are fourth-year college students. (Representational)
Kanpur:
An FIR was registered on Thursday towards eight final-year engineering college students of Harcourt Butler Technical University (HBTU) on the cost of try to homicide for allegedly beating their juniors when they didn’t adhere to their directions to “take away garments”.
The FIR has been registered towards the seniors by a third-year pupil of BTech Electronics at Nawabganj police station, underneath BNS sections 109 (try to homicide), 115 (2) voluntarily causes harm, 125 (an act so rashly as to hazard human life), 191 (2) rioting, 351 (3) legal intimidation and 352 (deliberately insults) aside from ragging expenses on this connection, Deputy Commissioner of Police (Central) Dinesh Tripathi stated.
All these named within the FIR are fourth-year college students.
In his FIR, the coed alleged that his classmate acquired a name from seniors to come back with him and one other classmate to Abdul Kalam Hostel to take pleasure in a ‘celebration” which is a “code language” for ragging.
The scenario escalated when the seniors requested them to take off their garments, which they refused. “We advised them that they need to be spared as they’d already confronted ragging within the first 12 months of their admission. Angry over the refusal, the seniors got here with sticks, belts, and iron rods and began beating them,” the FIR stated.
Instructions have been issued to name the accused college students. They might be questioned to work out the case, the DCP stated.
The HBTU administration has additionally began the inquiry into the matter to establish whether or not it was a ragging case or not, stated an official.
In ragging, usually, first-year college students are victims however on this case, the FIR was lodged by the third-year pupil towards final-year college students, he stated.
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