UP: Another ragging incident in Agra

Agra, Oct 6: Yet another ragging incident has been reported in the Taj city after a similar incident last Monday in which a B.Tech student of the Anand Engineering College was pushed off a campus building, Yesterday, some senior students of the IET Engineering Institute stormed a classroom and indulged in ragging. They even misbehaved with their teachers before leaving the institute.

Institute Director Sharadchand Upadhyay today said,'' The students, identified as Mridul Sharma, Vivek Raj, Neeraj, Dilip Kumar and Lalit Kumar, have been suspended.'' Besides, timings of the classes for junior and senior students had been changed.

On Oct 4, a case was registered against the Anand Engineering College management and four students after an engineering student was grievously wounded, when he was pushed off the third floor of his college building by his seniors.

Abdul Wahab was beaten black and blue by his seniors, who also snatched Rs 3,000 from him.

Taking cognisance of the issue, the district administration had directed all colleges of the Taj City to take necessary steps to prevent any ragging incident.

UNI