Ragging Allegations! GMC Khammam Faculty booked over MBBS student's tonsured head, Probe On
feeling humiliated, the student lodged a complaint with the college principal;
Hyderabad: In a shocking incident reported from Government Medical College in Khammam, a faculty has been booked for allegedly taking an MBBS student to a barber shop and getting his head tonsured. After the incident came to light, the government has ordered an inquiry.
According to recent media reports, the concerned faculty, an assistant professor, in-charge medical officer of the anti-ragging committee has been relieved from his hostel duties and the incident has also been brought to the attention of the Director of Medical Education.
While the officials known to the matter say that this is not a ragging incident, as per the police, a case has been registered under the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita (BNS), SC/ST, and Ragging Act.
A few days ago, a first-year MBBS student at Khammam Government Medical College sported a “Chinese-style” haircut and came to the college. Initially some seniors in the institute's hostel told the first-year student that this hairstyle was not proper for a medical college student and asked him to get it trimmed. When after the student got his hair trimmed, an assistant professor, in-charge medical officer of the anti-ragging committee, who also stays in the hostel, told him "it was looking odd" and took him to a salon and got his head shaved, the officials informed PTI.
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