‘You will die here’: Gang assaults Assamese student inside hostel
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Anuppur: A gang of five students allegedly assaulted an Assamese student inside his hostel room in Madhya Pradesh’s Indira Gandhi National Tribal University. They told him that he would die there, according to a news report by The Indian Express.
The five of them were expelled and booked for allegedly assaulting the 22-year-old postgraduate student in Amarkantak of Madhya Pradesh's Anuppur district, an official has said, according to PTI.
An FIR was registered against the five accused students shortly before midnight on Wednesday on the complaint of Hiros Jyoti Das, a postgraduate student of economics from Assam at IGNTU, Anuppur Sub-Divisional Officer of Police Naveen Tiwari told PTI.
The accused were booked under sections 115(2) (voluntarily causing hurt), 296 (obscene acts and words), 351(3) (criminal intimidation), and 3(5) (common intention) of Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita (BNS), he said on Thursday.
The incident comes close on the heels of the death of student Anjel Chakma, from Tripura in the North East, in Dehradun in Uttarakhand last month, causing national outrage and triggering calls for action and laws against such hate crimes.
“The university informed us that the five students were expelled by the disciplinary committee from the university a day earlier. We registered the FIR after receiving a complaint from Das. As per Das, when he was returning to his hostel room from the washroom, the accused allegedly asked him where he was from and what he was doing at the university. They then assaulted him around 4 pm on Tuesday," the official said.
The victim told the police that he had been studying at the university for the past three years. He has claimed he sustained injuries to his eyes, lips, nose, and temples after being hit with a bracelet, the official said.
“He has named Anurag Pande, Jatin Singh, Rajnish Tripathi, Vishal Yadav and Utkarsh Singh in his complaint,” he said.
Asked whether racial slurs were used during the incident, Tiwari said the matter was under investigation.
Meanwhile, the Madhya Pradesh Congress slammed the ruling BJP over the incident.
In a statement, Leader of the Opposition in the state Assembly, Umang Singhar, alleged that some unruly students at the IGNTU hostel made racist remarks against Das and assaulted him when he protested.
