FIR filed against 15 final year students after death of MBBS student due to unrest in Gujarat

Police have registered an FIR against 15 students of a medical college in Gujarat’s Patan district following the death of an 18-year-old student who was allegedly roughed up by them, officials said on Monday.

According to the First Information Report, the accused, all second-year MBBS students, allegedly made some third-year students, including the victim, wait in the hostel room for more than three hours on Saturday night and subjected them to “mental and physical torture” ( FIR).

The FIR said that these people have filed a case for culpable homicide not amounting to murder and other offences.

Officials of GMERS Medical College and Hospital at Dharpur in Patan said that the accused students have been suspended from their hostels and academic activities until further orders.

The victim, Anil Methaniya, a first-year MBBS student, lost consciousness and allegedly died after being kept standing for three hours during a ruckus by final-year students at a hostel of the college on Saturday night, university dean Dr Hardik Shah said. Sunday.

The anti-ragging committee of the university, headed by Dr Shah, took statements from 26 students, including 11 freshmen and 15 second-year students.

A university official said Monday that the committee found that 11 freshmen were subjected to harassment by 15 sophomores.

According to the FIR lodged at Balisana police station shortly after midnight on Monday, the 15 accused summoned 11 first-year students, including Methaniya and his classmates, to a hostel room for an “introduction” on Saturday night.

They kept the teenagers standing for about three and a half hours, forcing them to sing and dance, shout profane words, and not leave the room.

Methaniya’s health deteriorated as the students were subjected to mental and physical torture. The victim fainted and fell to the ground around midnight. The FIR stated that he was rushed to the hospital and doctors declared him dead.

Following a complaint by Dr Anil Bhathija, additional dean of the university, an FIR was filed against 15 students under the departments of Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita (BNS) on charges of murder, false imprisonment, unlawful assembly and culpable homicide not amounting to using obscene words.