Daijiworld Media Network - Mangaluru (SP)
Mangaluru, Jul 28: The city has witnessed an increasing trend in the number of ragging incidents in the colleges here. During the last seven months this year, cases were filed against 40 students in different police stations and they were arrested.
The arrested students include nine arrested from a pharmacy college in the city outskirts, 11 physiotherapy students from a college in Natekal during February, and seven who were taken into custody from an engineering college in Mukka, and a private first grade college in the city during March.
In April this year, allegation of ragging in a hostel of Mangalore University at Konaje was heard but the management intervened in time and settled the matter before the incident turned more serious. Six students from a nursing college were arrested on July 16 on the allegation of ragging a student of the same college.
Most of the students involved with ragging and those who became victims, were from Kerala. Keralites have formed 90 percent of those arrested for ragging this year. The city police commissioner had warned of taking action against college managements if they fail to initiate steps to regulate ragging. The ragging cases however went down after the lockdown but resumed once unlock was announced.
In one of the incidents which happened in February, after senior students of a college ragged their juniors, dean of the college had registered police complaint. Angered by this, senior students had threatened the dean. They also had assaulted lectures who warned of debarring them if they continued ragging activity. Four students had been arrested in that incident.