The students were also forced to throw expletives at female residents of the adjacent police quarters.
Calcutta:
Freshers of Jadavpur University living in the boys’ hostel were reportedly made to rub their faces against the wall and stay on the almirahs indefinitely. They found a committee formed by the institution to investigate incidents of rags-to-riches on campus.
The committee was formed following the death of a student on August 10, reportedly due to unrest on campus.
“They were forced to strip down to their undergarments and then perform activities such as standing on top of an almirah, rubbing their faces against the wall, ‘frog jumping’ and crawling under the beds,” said the report, which was prepared after the interview of hundreds of people. of the students living in the hostels.
The first-year students, who are referred to as ‘bachha‘ (child), were forced to wash their seniors’ clothes, write assignments for them and run errands, including fetching liquor, cigarettes and food at late hours from nearby markets, it alleged.
The freshmen were also forced to throw expletives at female residents of the adjacent police quarters, and the punishment for refusal would include a beating, it added.
The first-year student had died after falling from the balcony of the boys’ hostel. His family has alleged that he was a victim of rags-to-riches.
The report claimed that what happened that night was not just an isolated incident of rags-to-riches, but a regular practice.
“The accident site was washed with water by a group of boarders, on the instructions of one of the seniors, after the victim was rushed to the hospital in a yellow taxi around midnight on August 9,” the report said.
“Information about the movements just before his fatal fall is quite uncertain and vague, as none of the witnesses provided a clear description of the incident, which could help determine the cause and sequence of the accident,” it added to it. .
The commission alleged that the victim was singled out for serious, pre-planned violence, including possible sexual abuse.
Thirteen people, all former or current students, were arrested in connection with the case.
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