Times of India: Lucknow: Sunday,
January 26, 2014.
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.
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