GMERS ragging death case: College submits action report to UGC, family says 'What kind of doctors will accused become with such criminal minds?'

Medical Dialogues team had previously reported that Altogether 15 seniors were suspended and booked in a criminal case. According to a statement of a first-year student, some junior students including the deceased student were forced to stand for around three hours and introduce themselves individually. They were also allegedly forced to sing and dance, utter abusive words and not leave the room.

The name of the accused students in this case emerged after the college authorities informed the anti-ragging cell of the matter. The committee chaired by Dean Dr Hardik Shah took the statements of 26 students—11 first-year and 15 second-year students—and found that 11 first-year students were subjected to ragging by a group of 15 second-year students.

The incident took place last week after the accused students called 11 first-year students, including the deceased and his classmates, to a hostel room for an "introduction". They made the juniors stand for nearly three-and-a-half hours while forcing them to sing and dance, utter abusive words and not leave the room. This allegedly caused serious mental and physical trauma to the students.

In an interview with NDTV, the victim's cousin recalling the tragic incident said, "We got a call at night and were told that my brother had been hospitalised. We were asked to rush to the hospital at the earliest. Four of us reached the hospital around 4 am and we came to know my brother had died and the body had been sent for postmortem. At the meeting there where the dean and cops were present, we came to know ragging happened. Seniors were questioned,"

Questioning the intention of the accused seniors, his cousin said "Those who are doing these acts have a criminal mind, medicine is a service sector, how will they work there? Will they improve or harm the country's future? What kind of doctors will they become with such criminal minds, their studies should be stopped and they must be sentenced to life imprisonment."

Further, he said, "He was an excellent student. He was the top student across two-three villages, the first in our family who got through MBBS. We saw a future doctor in him," he said.

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