Patan: Gujarat Police has arrested 15 students of a medical college in Patan district and booked them for culpable homicide not amounting to murder in a case related to the death of a medical student.
Students suspended
All the 15 were also suspended by medical college after receiving report from its anti-ragging committee.
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FIR
The accused allegedly made some of their juniors, including the victim, Anil Methaniya, 18, stand in a hostel room for more than three hours on Saturday night and subjected them to "mental and physical torture," according to the FIR filed on a complaint by college officials.
The FIR said that on November 16, first-year students and second-year students assembled in the common room.
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Seniors made juniors stand for hours
Around 12.30 am on Sunday, Methaniya lost his conscious and later died. The first-year students revealed to the Dean, Dr Hardik Shah, that the second-year students engaged in ragging them by continuously making them stand for more three hours. (With Agency Inputs)
