While the UPTU anti-ragging committee ruled out ragging in the case of a final year civil engineering student of Goel Institute of Technology and Management (GITM), the complainant claimed that he has, in a written statement recorded on Saturday, mentioned that his was a case of "harassment after ragging". The student was allegedly ragged and assaulted by three classmates along with 12 seniors in April 2011. The SHRC recently directed UPTU VC to probe the matter and submit the report in four weeks.
Chairman, anti-ragging committee Prof Jagbir Singh said, "Statement of the complainant has been recorded. We have also spoken to management. We will speak to teachers and then finalize report.'' He added committee was probing harassment, discrimination and violation of rights.
The complainant, Abhinav Tiwari, however, alleged that he was pressured by the college management not to name the seniors during the investigations that took place following the assault in 2011. He said his statement was never recorded in the earlier probe before the report was submitted. The college promised to take action against the three accused (Abhinav's classmates), but didn't.
He alleged that the college management deliberately transferred his admission from SEE counselling to the 'management quota'. Abhinav also alleged that not only his sessional but external marks were unfairly deducted.
"I was confident of my third semester performance where the college management marked me poorly. So, I moved an application under RTI asking the college and university officials to show me my answer copies. Even after the directions of the state government and governor, I was not shown the answer copies,'' alleged Abhinav. "Only after I approached the HC did the varsity authorities show me the answer books in February, 2013, wherein some answers were unchecked."
Abhinav alleged that when he sought the earlier probe report from UPTU through an RTI, it refused to give it, saying it was "confidential". "How can a report be confidential when the complainant had been beaten up so badly," he asked, adding that the 2011 probe were also done under the chairmanship of Prof Singh. Abhinav's father, Lalchand Tiwari, had lodged an FIR against the three students namely Saurabh Mishra, Prashant Singh and Deepak Tiwari, alleging that the incident was a case of ragging.
Meanwhile, GITM officials remained unavailable for comments.
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