Four BHU students booked for ragging

Four engineering students of the Banaras Hindu University were booked under the Anti-Ragging Act in Varanasi on Tuesday for allegedly ragging a first-year student outside the campus.

Four engineering students of the Banaras Hindu University (BHU) were booked under the Anti-Ragging Act in Varanasi on Tuesday for allegedly ragging a first-year student outside the campus.

S Harsha,P Kishore,K Raja and Guru Prashad have been arrested for ragging a student, said Deputy Inspector General of Police P C Meena.

Four students two of third-year and two of first-year allegedly thrashed a fresher on Monday evening after he refused to act like a stripper, said Chief Proctor H C S Rathore.

They also took away Rs 1,000 and a mobile phone from him,he added. Taking a serious view of the incident,the university authorities immediately ousted all the four accused from the university hostels and banned them for four semesters.

Incidentally,all the five students the four accused and one victim belong to Dalit community.

All the four accused were produced before the magistrate on Tuesday and were sent to jail.

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