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A senior student of Jhalawar Medical College was suspended after some junior students accused him and his friends of ragging. The junior students alleged that they were asked to follow some commands and were beaten up when some of them refused to do so.

A senior official of Medical College said, "Some fourth year MBBS students have been accused of harassing seven junior students in the college hostel. They say that they were even slapped and made to stand out in the open in the cold night."

According to reports, a student, Amrit Meena, has been suspended in this case. An enquiry against other senior students has been taken up by the college's disciplinary committee.

Cases of ragging at educational institutes in Rajasthan come up from time to time despite strict Supreme Court directives against the practice. Last September, criminal cases were slapped against five students of Mohanlal Sukhadia University in Udaipur after a first-year Bachelor of Science student went into depression after he was ragged.

In the same month, 16 students were booked for ragging an engineering student in Jodhpur's Jai Narain Vyas University. In another ragging case on Sep 8, a 19-year-old girl was allegedly ragged by her seniors at a private engineering college at Bhankrota in Jaipur. (Source:igovernment)