7 students of engineering college in Coimbatore arrested for forcefully tonsuring, abusing junior

The senior students had warned him against telling anyone about the incident.

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The police conducted an inquiry and found that seven students, including third-year and fifth-year students, were involved in the incident.

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Seven students of a popular engineering college in Tamil Nadu’s Coimbatore district were arrested on Tuesday by the police for allegedly abusing and humiliating a junior under the pretext of ragging.

According to the police on Wednesday, the victim is a second-year student and a resident of Rayarpalayam in Tiruppur. On Monday night, the senior students walked into his hostel room in the college and asked him for money to buy liquor. After he refused, the seniors picked him up and took him to their room.

All the seven arrested students have been suspended from college.

The senior students then tonsured the victim using a trimmer, abused him and even assaulted him on his hand. They sent him back to his room only the next morning. The students also threatened him not to tell anyone about the incident and that he would be subjected to similar acts if he did so.

However, the student told his parents about the incident.

According to sources, the college administration did not take action immediately following which the student approached the Peelamedu police station on Tuesday and lodged a complaint.

The police conducted an inquiry and found that seven students, including third-year and fifth-year students, were involved in the incident.

The police registered a case under the Tamil Nadu Prohibition of Ragging Act as well as under sections 355 (assault or criminal force with intent to dishonour person) and 323 (voluntarily causing hurt) threats of the Indian Penal Code (IPC).

Janardhan Koushik

Janardhan Koushik is Deputy Copy Editor of indianexpress.com. He is a New Media journalist with over five years of reporting experience in the industry. He has a keen interest in politics, sports, films, and other civic issues. Janardhan holds a Bachelor’s degree in Visual Communication from SRM Arts and Science College and a PG Diploma in New Media from Asian College of Journalism, one of the top ranked journalism schools in India. He started his career with India Today group as a sub-editor as part of the sports team in 2016. He has also a wide experience as a script-writer having worked for short-films, pilot films as well as a radio jockey cum show producer while contributing for an online Tamil FM. As a multilingual journalist, he actively tracks the latest development in Tamil Nadu and Puducherry utiling his well-established networks to contribute significantly to breaking news stories. He has also worked as a sports analyst for Star Sports. ... Read More

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