Goa Police record statements of ragging victims

Even as nine students of the Goa Medical College arrested for ragging were released on bail, Agassaim police on Friday recorded statements of all seven witnesses. Speaking to Deputy Superintendent of Police Deu Benaulikar, told Herald that a chargesheet against the alleged accused MBBS students will be filed shortly. He did not specify any date to filing the chargesheet, though. "We have already quizzed the accused students and also completed recording statements of the seven junior students who were ragged. A charge sheet will soon be filed after we record statements of Goa Medical College Dean Dr V N Jindal and warden of the hostel Dr C P Das," said the officer.
It is learnt that the victims told police that the senior students asked them to kneel down and salute.

Goa Medical College

The hostel building of the Goa Medical College at Bambolim in which the ragging incident took place.

Earlier, GMC authorities expelled the accused students from the hostel for ragging the first year MBBS students, on Thursday. Warden of the hostel Dr C P Das caught the nine students in action following which he intimated the authorities and subsequently lodged a complaint at Agassaim police station. All these students including those involved in ragging and victim juniors were enrolled from All India Quota, studying various courses of MBBS.