Andhra Student Thrashed By Seniors Allegedly Over Relationship With Girl

Five Class 12 students of a government college in Andhra Pradesh's Palnadu have been arrested, and a Class 11 student detained for assaulting another student, allegedly over a friendship with a girl student.

The incident, a video of which has gone viral, took place on August 7, triggering rumours that the victim, a Class 11 student, was ragged. The Palnadu district police chief, Kanchi Srinivas Rao, however, told NDTV it was not a case of ragging but an assault that happened because of a suspected triangular relationship.

The victim was reportedly friends with a class 11 student, which irked the undergraduate student who liked her.

The undergraduate student, then, with the help of the victim's seniors, forcibly took him to a hostel for students belonging to Backward Classes and thrashed him. None of them were residents of the hostel.

One of the students also shot a video of the assault, which then went viral.

A shocking incident has come to light at the BC Boys' Hostel in Dachepalli, Palnadu district, where senior students, intoxicated with alcohol and ganja, brutally assaulted a junior student. The victim was locked inside a room, beaten without mercy, and threatened with electric… pic.twitter.com/hgDDHiysfH

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The YSR Congress Party said the victim was also "threatened with electric shock".

"A shocking incident has come to light at the BC Boys' Hostel in Dachepalli, Palnadu district, where senior students, intoxicated with alcohol and ganja, brutally assaulted a junior student. The victim was locked inside a room, beaten without mercy, and threatened with electric shock, turning the hostel into a scene of horror," the party said in a statement.

Former chief minister Jagan Mohan Reddy-led party also said that such "repeated atrocities raise serious questions about the safety and supervision" of hostels for students belonging to Backward Classes.

"The government must act immediately to ensure strict punishment and protect the welfare of hostel students," it said.

The parents of the victim filed a police complaint on Saturday, and a case was filed under the Scheduled Caste and Scheduled Tribe (Prevention of Atrocities) Act. They were also charged with criminal assault, threatening, forcible detention and kidnapping.

The district collector has also ordered a probe into the incident, whose report is expected to recommend suspension of the warden who was in charge of the hostel.