Panel to inquire into alleged ragging incident, says CMC, Vellore

The Christian Medical School (CMC), Vellore, has constituted a six-member particular committee to inquire into the allegations of ragging of medical college students by their seniors on the campus, after suspending seven senior college students, who have been named in an nameless e-mail the school acquired final Sunday, mentioned CMC’s director, Vikram Mathew, on Wednesday.

Addressing media individuals on the primary campus, Dr. Mathew mentioned that when the school acquired the e-mail grievance final Sunday, it initiated motion on the problem regardless of the nameless nature of the e-mail — it didn’t have any sender’s identify or different id. Seven college students, who’re mentioned to be principally third-year college students, have been suspended on Monday primarily based on the e-mail.

The report of the particular committee, which includes school members of assorted departments within the faculty, can be submitted to the anti-ragging cell, a compulsory unit in schools, for applicable motion together with initiating prison proceedings corresponding to submitting a police case in opposition to those that have been concerned within the incident. “The incident is underneath investigation and a report can be submitted by the particular committee within the subsequent few days. We don’t condone ragging in any kind. We even have zero tolerance on ragging,” Dr. Mathew mentioned.

The alleged ragging incident got here to gentle after Kartik Chadaar from the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) shared a video of the incident on his Twitter deal with on Sunday, tagging the school, Chief Minister M. Okay. Stalin, and others. Instantly, the video went viral on social media.

Within the video, which was mentioned to be shot on October 9, some college students have been paraded inside the lads’s hostel half-naked (with solely their underwear on) within the campus at Bagayam on the outskirts of Vellore. Water was sprayed on them from a hose and so they have been made to lie down within the mud and have been made to carry out some acts on the bottom.

One of many college students, a first-year MBBS pupil, in an internet submit gave an in depth account of the incident. It was additionally alleged within the submit that they have been subjected to bodily and sexual abuse. “We now have not acquired any complaints on the problem thus far. As soon as we get complaints, we act accordingly,” mentioned S. Rajesh Kannan, Superintendent of Police, Vellore.