18 students of Tripura Medical College booked for ragging

Altogether 18 students of Tripura Medical College, Hapania, Agartala have been booked for complaints of ragging, including threatening to shave the heads of their juniors, forcing female students to propose to their seniors. FIR was lodged against them after the college administration filed a complaint against them. Apart from being booked, the students have also been asked to pay a fine of Rs 10 lakh, and they have also been suspended from the hostels for one year. Further, their mobile phones will be monitored for six months, TOI has reported.

After the victims filed complaints before an Anti-Ragging NGO, Society Against Violence in Education, the NGO complained to the college and the UGC Anti-Ragging helpline.