Case Against 4 Doctors In Surat For Ragging Junior Who Died By Suicide

Police registered a case against four resident doctors of the Government Medical College (GMC) in Gujarat's Surat on Tuesday for their alleged involvement in the ragging of a 30-year old first-year student, who died by suicide, officials said.

The FIR was registered against four second-year PG students of the GMC affiliated to New Civil Hospital after Harsh Pandya was found hanging by the ceiling of his hostel room on the morning of August 9, an official of Khatodara police station said.

The accused students -- Nirali Vasave, Anuj Maheshwari, Dikshita Ghewaria and Hina Bhut -- were suspended from the institute for six months on Monday after the institute's anti-ragging committee found them involved in harassing 10 first year students, including Pandya.

The accused were booked under sections 127 (2), 352 and 54 of the Bharatiya Nyay Sanhita (BNS) pertaining to wrongful confinement, intentional insult and abettor present at the scene of the crime, the police official said.

GMC Dean, Dr Jayesh Brahmbhatt said that an FIR was registered at the Khatodra police station against the four students found guilty by the institute's anti-ragging committee following an incident of ragging in the institute's microbiology department so that further legal action can be taken.