The Naga Students’ Union (NSU) in Shillong has complained of ragging inside a boys’ hostel in NEHU, Tura campus.
According to the NSU, an MBA student of the Department of Agri Business Management in NEHU was subjected to ragging inside the Arabella Boys’ Hostel of NEHU in Chasingre on October 8 at around 1:30 am to 2 am .
The incident was first flagged by a union based in Kohima, Nagaland to the NSU here in Shillong, who has written to NEHU Vice Chancellor Prof Prabha Shankar Shukla asking the university to immediately intervene to secure justice for the student within 24 hours.
The NSUS said the concern authority should take legal actions and file an FIR, facilitate the victim student to transfer to another central university of the same course, implement stringent disciplinary actions against the perpetrators in accordance with the university’s Anti ragging policies and pertinent laws (such as UGC’s Regulations on curbing the menace of Ragging in Higher Educational Institutions, 2002), expel perpetrators from the university, transparent communication from the university and that NEHU should align with the UGC’s regulations on curbing ragging to bolster community building endeavours, with a special focus on every incoming freshers.
“Such an undisciplined and heinous incident has brought a great shame to the student’s community and should never be encouraged elsewhere,” union President Chiran Shimrah said.
He said if the university fails to take necessary actions the union will call for strikes and boycotts against NEHU.
