Ragging case on four Navi Mumbai dental students

NAVI MUMBAI: Four students of a dental college in Kamothe, Navi Mumbai, have been booked for allegedly ragging a junior. The four allegedly made the 19-year-old consume alcohol and insisted that he pass urine in his pants, according to a complaint lodged by the college. While the four seniors have been suspended by the college, no one has been arrested so far.
The alleged incident took place in July, but the junior, who is from Kolhapur, told his parents about the harassment during a recent visit.
The junior, who is enrolled in the first year of the degree course, lives in a rented flat in Kamothe with three batch-mates. The three seniors, aged between 21 and 22 and studying in the third year of the same degree course, are tenants in another flat on the same premises.
According to the complaint lodged by a professor of the college's anti-ragging committee, the four seniors had asked the junior and three of his roomies to come over to their place and forced them to consume liquor.
"When the junior from Kolhapur asked to use the washroom, they stopped him from doing so. Instead, they forced him to keep on drinking water and insisted that he control his urge to pass urine," said senior inspector Smita Jadhav of Kamothe police station where the complaint has been lodged. "The seniors then insisted that he urinate in his trousers."
The parents of the junior, who had been caught copying at an exam recently, found him disturbed and thought it was because he had been caught cheating. He told his parents about the "ragging" after which they complained to the college by e-mail.