The Kangra police ultimately booked four senior medical student

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The Kangra  police ultimately  booked four senior medical students for causing the death of a first semester student by ragging and severely beating him up in Rajindra Prasad Medical College of Tanda in Kangra district of Himachal Pardesh in India.

Meanwhile two senior medical college students have been arrested by the Kangra Police and the principal of the college S Sankhyan has resigned. Even hostel warden Pradeep Bansal, and hostel manager, Deepak Verma were also suspended by the State government.

The victim, 19-year-old Aman Kachru was a Delhi Public School student who had taken admission in a medical school in Himachal Pradesh last year met with a horrible death at the hands of seniors who are  also with the same profession.

He was reportedly died few hours after being ragged by four final year students of the Rajindra Prasad Medical College at Tanda Kangra.

Police officials said here that Kachru died of head and other injuries sustained after being beaten up by drunk seniors during ragging. The SP Kangra Atul Phulzale  said that a case of murder (Section 302 of the Indian Penal Code) had been registered against the four senior students. They had earlier been booked for culpable homicide (Section 304) by the police. "After receiving the post-mortem report, the case has been converted to that of murder. Two have been arrested while two others are still absconding," he  said. The students arrested are Ajay Verma and Naveen Verma, S P Kangra  said. Abhinav Verma and Mukul Sharma were absconding, he added.

Though the victim gave a complaint to the college authorities and the police after being beaten up, both reacted to it only after he died under mysterious circumstances. The role of the local police and the hospital authorities is under the scanner for not having reacted till the victim died.

Himachal Health Minister Rajiv Bindal said that a magisterial probe had been ordered into the incident. "We will take strict action against the senior students who indulged in ragging and anyone else who showed laxity in curbing ragging. If a murder case has to registered against the senior students, it will be done on the basis of the post-mortem report," Bindal said earlier.

At least 13 other first semester students were ragged by their seniors in clear violation of Supreme Court guidelines which make ragging a crime and their complaint with the college authorities did not lead to any action to end their suffering.

Virkin Dhar, the victim's cousin, said he had told her that senior students used to rag juniors after getting drunk and the same thing happened on Saturday night, when they physical assaulted freshers. "We have come to know that senior students had punched and slapped Aman, inflicting internal injuries that proved to be fatal," she said.

The Tanda medical college has been infamous in this peaceful Himachal Pardeh  for illegal ragging and other activities by senior students. Even state government doctors fear being posted in this college. Kachru, whose family originally hails from Jammu and Kashmir but is now settled in Gurgaon, was a brilliant student, family members said. His father is still a visiting faculty at the Dar-es-Salaam University in Tanzania.