More facts seem to emerge in the alleged ragging case in Visvesvaraya National Institute of Technology (VNIT). Sources in institute said the episode that brought much disgrace may have been a fall-out of enmity between two factions of students belonging to third year and final year which reached its peak on January 5.
The trouble started just after students council polls in which accused students Pallav Jha was elected as secretary while Pranav Dixit as academic secretary. While the final year students were trying to assert their supremacy on their juniors, the third year students refused to budge. Petty clashes continued since then and even a motorcycle of a student was reportedly set on fire in one of them.
The latest incident appears to have been sparked off during table tennis tournament where a third year student Shashank Mishra, a friend of victims Jayant Kumar and Niraj Sawarna, engaged in a scuffle with the seniors. A day before the incident, final year students enraged by Mishra's behaviour decided to teach him and his friends a lesson. Next day over 70 of them ragged the duo. Mishra himself was saved as he went out of the hostel anticipating trouble, sources added.
Even the VNIT director in a circular of January 5, the day of the incident, said "there has been a series of incidents this academic year in which students have displayed tendency to take law into their own hands." A copy of notice is with TOI. It also stated that there had been scuffles and altercations among students and between them and police. "There was one last night too," the notice mentioned while "earnestly appealing to the students to maintain peace and harmony on the campus and desist from taking law into their own hands."
Officiating director Chintamani Moghe could not be contacted third day running but registrar BN Ganvir told TOI that the college was taking every precaution to avoid such episodes. "We have pasted posters at all our hostels warning students to behave. Even the parents of accused students were apprised of their acts and were warned that any violation would lead to cancellation registration," he said.
No third year student including the victims was ready to divulge information apparently fearing backlash from superiors and college authorities. Academicians, however, stated that episode could have been avoided if the VNIT authorities had taken stringent action in initial stages. "The college authorities should have taken strict measures at the beginning. Erstwhile VRCE directors like VM Dokras were so strict that students used to fear to come before them. Sadly, situation is different today," former NU registrar Balraj Aher lamented.
The trouble started just after students council polls in which accused students Pallav Jha was elected as secretary while Pranav Dixit as academic secretary. While the final year students were trying to assert their supremacy on their juniors, the third year students refused to budge. Petty clashes continued since then and even a motorcycle of a student was reportedly set on fire in one of them.
The latest incident appears to have been sparked off during table tennis tournament where a third year student Shashank Mishra, a friend of victims Jayant Kumar and Niraj Sawarna, engaged in a scuffle with the seniors. A day before the incident, final year students enraged by Mishra's behaviour decided to teach him and his friends a lesson. Next day over 70 of them ragged the duo. Mishra himself was saved as he went out of the hostel anticipating trouble, sources added.
Even the VNIT director in a circular of January 5, the day of the incident, said "there has been a series of incidents this academic year in which students have displayed tendency to take law into their own hands." A copy of notice is with TOI. It also stated that there had been scuffles and altercations among students and between them and police. "There was one last night too," the notice mentioned while "earnestly appealing to the students to maintain peace and harmony on the campus and desist from taking law into their own hands."
Officiating director Chintamani Moghe could not be contacted third day running but registrar BN Ganvir told TOI that the college was taking every precaution to avoid such episodes. "We have pasted posters at all our hostels warning students to behave. Even the parents of accused students were apprised of their acts and were warned that any violation would lead to cancellation registration," he said.
No third year student including the victims was ready to divulge information apparently fearing backlash from superiors and college authorities. Academicians, however, stated that episode could have been avoided if the VNIT authorities had taken stringent action in initial stages. "The college authorities should have taken strict measures at the beginning. Erstwhile VRCE directors like VM Dokras were so strict that students used to fear to come before them. Sadly, situation is different today," former NU registrar Balraj Aher lamented.
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