brutally ragged in Kerala..

Kochi December 19: Day by Day ragging harassment's are increasing,similarly two incidents happened recently.

Here comes the news that,An engineering student attempted suicide and another was hospitalized in two alleged incidents of brutal ragging in Kerala, police said on Sunday.

In Kochi, a marine engineering student at the Cochin University of Science and Technology tried to kill himself after he was allegedly beaten up and mentally tortured for hours last Friday, his father said.

'I joined the course after yearning for it a lot. But animals there subjected me to severe physical and mental torture,' the student wrote on Facebook.

The second case was reported from south Kerala's Kottayam where two Dalit students of the Government Polytechnic College were allegedly forced by older peers into doing push-ups and other demanding physical exercises for six hours.

The duo was then compelled to drink undiluted alcohol, police said.

The suspects in both cases are on the run, police said.

The incidents have sent shock-waves across the state with the Kerala human rights commission seeking a report from the college and police.

'Ragging is an institutionalized crime, not a result of a drunken night or a playful evening gone too far. Those who rag should be treated as criminals,' said Ajay Govind from the Society Against Violence in Education, an NGO working against ragging.

Government must take a severe action against Ragging in colleges...