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Tamil Nadu: CMC Suspends 7 Senior MBBS Students For Parading Juniors Without Clothes

The college Wednesday set up a committee to investigate the allegations and the management asserted that the suspension of seven students will remain stay put untill the probe is complete

Seven senior MBBS students were suspended by the Christian Medical College (CMC) in Tamil Nadu's Vellore after they subjected juniors to ragging. The college Wednesday set up a committee to investigate the allegations and the management asserted that the suspension of seven students will remain stay put untill the probe is complete. The juniors alleged that the senior MBBS students made them parade half naked and mimic sexual acts.

A first-year MBBS student had shared the video in which he and other batch mates were subjected to ragging by seniors. The video, which went viral, depicted the juniors being made to kneel in the mud outside the college hostel and water sprayed from a hose on them.

The junior students were made to do some physical activity in the mud even as water was being sprayed on them. A junior student, who was subjected to the ragging, told the media persons at Vellore that they were subjected to physical and sexual abuse.

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The post of the first-year MBBS student was tweeted by a doctor and this went viral leading to the management taking action against the senior students. Seven senior students were suspended from the college and the management has initiated a further probe into their activities.

A first-year student also posted about the ragging incident in text format on Reddit. He mentioned the ragging that happened to them in detail. The first-year student alleged that the freshers have been facing physical and sexual abuse since March, this year. He described half-naked boys seen in the video parading as a "walk race".

Ragging is an offence prohibited by the University Grants Commission (UGC) and the National Medical Council.

(With IANS inputs)

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