4 Tanda Medical College MBBS students expelled, Fined for ragging juniors

Kangra: In a ragging incident reported from Dr Rajendra Prashad Medical College, Tanda - Tanda Medical College, 4 senior students have been expelled and fined for ragging juniors.

The incident came to light after a junior student filed a complaint in this regard. Speaking to UNI, Dr Milap Sharma Principal of Dr. R P Govt Medical College confirmed to UNI that a junior student had lodged a complaint with the Anti-Ragging Cell that he was beaten up, injured, harassed, bullied and ragged by his seniors.

Dr Sharma said that all four seniors were found guilty by a five-member Anti Ragging Committee. Two students of the 2019 batch have been expelled from the college and hostel for one year and imposed a fine of Rs. 1 lakh each, Dr. Sharma said.

The two students have been suspended from classes for one year and another suspended from Internship for one year. He said that each of these students have been fined Rs 1,00,000 each.

The principal said that two students of the 2021 batch were also expelled from the college for six months and fined Rs. 50,000 each.

He said that such activities will not be tolerated in any case in the college and anyone indulging in such activities will be dealt under the law of the land.

This is their first such case of ragging in 15 years and the institute has taken strong steps to send out a message. Nineteen-year-old, a first-year MBBS student at Dr Rajendra Prashad Medical College, Tanda (Kangra), a government college in Himachal Pradesh, died on March 8, 2009, a day after he was subjected to ragging in the hostel by his four seniors — all second-year MBBS students.

Following his death the Supreme Court took cognizance and enacted an anti ragging law in the country.