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Himachal orders probe into school ragging case

Shimla/Solan: Himachal Pradesh on Sunday ordered a magisterial inquiry into the alleged ragging incident at a residential school where seven students were sent back home for brutally beating up juniors, barely two months after the Aman Kachroo episode.

“Solan’s SP and SDM have been asked to probe the incident” at Lawrence School at Sanawar, Chief Minister Prem Kumar Dhumal said from Kullu, where he had gone for a poll meeting.

The officials have been asked to initiate necessary measures, he said, adding his government has already declared zero tolerance on ragging.

Some students of standard XI were allegedly ragged on Monday by seniors from class XII for not cheering them during a basketball match, said school sources.

Seven students were punished and sent home for “manhandling” their juniors on Friday.

The parents of abused students, who staged a protest at the school on Saturday, claimed that the victims were whipped with wet leather belts, rods and sticks which left six of them with perforated eardrum.

The incident comes barely two months after the death of MBBS student Aman Kachroo due to ragging at a Tanda college in March which sparked a national outrage and prompted the State Government to bring in an anti-ragging ordinance.

Claiming that he had acted “swiftly”, school headmaster Praveen Vashist said he was against taking back the seven students but added that the school board “was free to further think about it”. — PTI

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