Nude videos of students; torture with compass and lotion; horror stories of ragging from Government Nursing College Boys' Hostel

KOTTAYAM: Juniors will be tied to the bed naked. Dumbbells will be hung on their private parts. They will be scraped all over their bodies with a compass and lotion is poured on the wounds...

Six first-year students of the Gandhinagar Government Nursing College Boys' Hostel were brutally tortured in the name of ragging. The five senior students who were arrested have been remanded for 14 days.

The students are subjected to torture by threatening them with a knife at their necks. They have to pay Rs 800 to buy liquor. If they do not, they will be beaten and extorted. Seniors will come drunk at night and start new tortures.

The students said that the beatings have been a regular occurrence since the start of classes on November 4. There are only six boys in the first-year batch of general nursing. The victims are five natives of Thiruvananthapuram and one from Idukki.

Kottayam Moonnilavu ​​Keeriplakkal Samuel (20), Koruthodu Madukka Nedungadu Vivek (21), Wayanad Pulpally Njavalath Jeeva (19), Manjeri Kacherippadi Rijiljith (20), and Wandoor Karumarapatta Rahul Raj (22), who are third-year students, were arrested. They were suspended from the college. The college authorities said that a commission has been set up to investigate.

The ragging came to light when a student who was beaten up for not paying to buy alcohol the other day informed his parents. Three people filed a complaint with the Gandhinagar police.

Not reported out of fear of nude video

The accused's regular hobby was to force alcohol on students at night and take nude videos. The students endured everything fearing that their studies would be disrupted if the video was leaked. The torture was severe on Saturdays and Sundays.

"We came to know about it when the parents told us on Tuesday. The complaint was handed over to the district police chief and SHO. There is an anti-ragging committee and squad"

-Dr. Lini Joseph

Principal-in-charge

"Shocking footage was received from the accused's phone. There is a separate case for shooting videos of students naked"

-T Sreejith,

SHO, Gandhinagar Station