Wayanad: 19 students including SFI leaders were debarred from studies for 3 years over the death of a second-year student Siddharth who was found dead inside his hostel room. Kerala Veterinary and Animal Sciences University (KVASU) anti-ragging committee took action against these students after police named them as accused in Siddharth’s death. With this ban, the students cannot continue their studies in any of the registered educational institutions in India for 3 years.
Twenty-year-old Sidharth from Nedumnagad, Thiruvananthapuram, was found hanging in his hostel bathroom on February 18. 11 arrests have so far been made by the police in connection with Siddharth’s death.
Among them, college union president K Arun and unit secretary Amal Ihsan (both SFI members) had surrendered before police. Charges including abetment of suicide, wrongful restraint and voluntarily causing hurt by dangerous weapons or means under the IPC, and the Kerala Prohibition of Ragging Act have been charged against the accused.
Sidharth’s parents claimed that some of his collegemates told them that he was beaten to death by some local SFI leaders and activists. The father contended that according to the postmortem report, his son’s body bore three days of injuries and an empty stomach, which indicated that he was brutally beaten up and not given any food.
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