Sitting amid the blackened remains of his home, 32-year-old Nikesh Gawali carefully broke open a half-melted plastic box with a screwdriver. His hands shook slightly, not out of fear, but out of hope. “I’m trying to find my daughter Aarti’s gold earrings,” he said quietly, still focused on the box. “She’s just five. I got them made recently after months of labour work.” The plastic box, warped and blackened by heat, was one of the few things left from his two-room house on the outskirts of Dhamangaon village . All around him lay ash, broken tin sheets and charred wooden beams. The walls had cracked under the heat and the front room’s tin roof had caved in completely. What remained was a blackened debris all around - almost nothing to suggest a home once stood there. Nikesh earns his living as an agricultural labourer, like many in the village. Work is uncertain and depends on the season. Those earrings weren’t just jewellery - they were a small dream, a reward for his hard work,...
Ajni police on Friday registered an offence against six interns of Bachelor of Medicine, Bachelor of Surgery (MBBS) of Government Medical College and Hospital (GMC&H) Nagpur for ragging a junior, said a police official.
The accused students have been identified as Dr Om Vaidya, Dr Shivprasad Kute, Dr Shriganesh Nilwan,Dr Piyush Neharkar, Dr Sachin Bhosle and Dr Bhagat Shubham Mahajan.
Sr. Police Inspector Nitin Phatangare informed ‘The Hitavada that the offence was registered on the complaint of Dr Akhil Bhagwan Giradkar on behalf of GMC&H administration. The interns are booked under Section 4 of Maharashtra Prohibition of Ragging Act and Sections 323, 504, 506, 143, 147 and 149 of Indian Penal Code.
It may be mentioned here that the doctors were barred from internship on Wednesday after they allegedly found ragging a junior student. The interns were also asked to vacate the college hospital by the administration.
An official of GMC&H had said that the MBBS students are undergoing internships at the college. They ragged a first year MBBS student in April this year. A complaint about the ragging incident was lodged with the Central Anti-Ragging Committee by a student.
The Committee had immediately directed the GMC&H administration to initiate action against the students. Dean of GMC&H Dr Raj Gajbhiye issued orders suspending internship of the students and also directed them to vacate the college hostel. Sources claimd that the victim was allegedly mentally and physically tortured by the seniors. The incident occurred six months ago. However, a formal complaint was lodged recently. The reason behind lodging the complaint after six months was not ascertained so far.
No ragging in the hostel, says students
The ragging cases in GMC&H took a new turn as students living in the college hostap wrote a letter to the college administration stating no one was ragging students here. The victim in the ragging case has also told the college administration that he was never ragged by anyone.
A total of 107 students living in the college hostel no. 5 submitted a letter to the college administration in which they claimed that ragging never happened in the hostel. The students tried to showcase the unity of senior and junior students. The victim also reportedly met senior officials of the college and tried to convince them that he was never ragged by seniors, informed sources.
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