Catering boys suspended for 'ragging'

Sandesh Prabhudesai
10 August 2001  

Eight North Indian students, studying here at the National Institute of Hotel Management and Catering, were suspended today morning following their arrest for their alleged involvement in 'ragging'.

The police acted yesterday on the basis of a complaint filed by the college principal, who personally investigated into the allegations made by junior students and filed an FIR accordingly.

All of them, studying in second or third year, are charged for unlawful restraint, causing simple hurt, dishonour and threatening with dire consequences the junior students. They were later released on bail.

Following the police action, principal Roque D'Cruz issued a suspension notice against them today morning, pending investigations. "We will take further action only after the investigations are complete", he said.

It includes three boys from Uttar Pradesh including Noida, two from Bihar and one each from Delhi, Mumbai and Dehradun. The police also do not rule out more arrests.

Meanwhile, no further action is being initiated in a more serious 'ragging' case filed by a Delhi-based student Shailender Agarwal, who was stripped nude and a cigarette stuffed with drugs was pushed into his mouth by four boys and two girls in the institute.

As Agarwal has fled back to Delhi and does not wish to come down to Goa to identify these six senior students, the police are awaiting positive response for the summons they have issued to him last week.

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