First Hand Account from PRITAM SUBBA – the boy who was ragged at the Jadavpur University.
Recently two students from Darjeeling were ragged at the Jadavpur University, following which a complaint was lodged with the UGC. After thorough investigation the JU authorities found two of the seniors guilty of ragging and were summarily suspended. However, a few of those who are friends with the seniors have continued to protest against their suspension. Thus, this first hand has been issued by Mr. Pritam Subba whose complaint led to the suspension of those two seniors has issued account.
NOTE: This clarification is for the benefit of the Jadavpur University students and not meant to evoke any sort of emotional response from the greater Darjeeling community. We request our readers to not react to this news in any negative manner. If you have to comment, please be respectful in doing so.
Here is what Pritam says :
"Hello friends,
I would like to clarify few things about the ragging incident. I want to share what had actually happened and I would also like to request you to not to believe in whatever the protestors are saying. They are spreading false news just to save their mates."
As we all know, these so-called "senior" students try to rag the fresher’s. We have 6 students from the hills this year, in the 1st year and the seniors had tried to rag them too by imposing dress code on them. I, along with my friend, Ashish Tamang, protested against this. Since then, we have been their targets. They accused us of being communal because we tried to protect our juniors from being ragged. Of the 6 1st yr students, 2 of them were not allocated hostel rooms so we had kept them with us, which we later found out was not allowed as per hostel rule. Taking this opportunity, on the night of 22nd August, few seniors, including Manik Halder, one of those who have been suspended gathered outside my room. They told me to take away the 1st years. They were shouting, using filthy language, and threatened me that they would beat me up if I didn’t take the 1st yr student away by the next day. I disccused this matter with my friends and decided to take them away as we didn’t want any trouble. The next day i.e on the night of 23rd August, a group of senior students gathered outside my room while I was in the bathroom just beside my room. I knew from their voices that they were the same people who had come the previous day. They were shouting my name and said something about 1st year student. Then I heard a sound of breaking glass. When I came out of the bathroom I found that my windowpane had been broken. Seeing this I went to the AGC of our campus to talk about this. He assured that he would talk with those people and called for a meeting with those guys later. Accompanied by my friend Ashish, I went to meet them. Many fourth year students had gathered. As I was very angry at that moment I talked very rudely with them. Manik Halder, the leader of group was there. I told him that if he had any problem with me than come to me directly, there was no need to break my glass in my absence. But those seniors asked me to prove that he, Manik Halder had broken the glass. As I was in the bathroom and could only hear his voice I had no evidence to prove him guilty. However, later on during the investigation they admitted to the dean of the students that they were present there.
Following this they started saying I had put false allegation on the seniors and being a junior I disrespected them, so I have to apologize. This was totally insane. I thought why should I apologize when I have no fault. Anyone would get angry if someone breaks his or her glass for no reason. They were threatening me to beat me up and even said that they were above the authority and even the authority can take no action against them. When I refused to apologize since I had no fault, one of the seniors, Anupam, the other student who has been suspended, slapped me on my face. This could have worsened the situation but thanks to Ashish, he controlled the situation and advised me to say sorry and go away from there.
Later on other seniors assured me that such things wont happen again and no one would bother me. But that was not to be and again on the morning of 25th august, I found a lump of feces/human stool on my door, which was disgusting. I was very much sure that people who did this were the same people who broke my glass and slapped me… No one else would have done that.
Following this I lodged a complaint with the hostel superintendent and to the UGC.
The authority set up an enquiry committee and those two students were found guilty and suspended from the college.
This situation arose because of the fact that they tried to rag the 1st year students. I want to know from you guys, is this not ragging? Or a framed ragging case as projected by the protestors?
[Inputs by: Rinchen Tamang, if you copy-paste this please credit the original source]
Recently two students from Darjeeling were ragged at the Jadavpur University, following which a complaint was lodged with the UGC. After thorough investigation the JU authorities found two of the seniors guilty of ragging and were summarily suspended. However, a few of those who are friends with the seniors have continued to protest against their suspension. Thus, this first hand has been issued by Mr. Pritam Subba whose complaint led to the suspension of those two seniors has issued account.
Here is what Pritam says :
"Hello friends,
I would like to clarify few things about the ragging incident. I want to share what had actually happened and I would also like to request you to not to believe in whatever the protestors are saying. They are spreading false news just to save their mates."
As we all know, these so-called "senior" students try to rag the fresher’s. We have 6 students from the hills this year, in the 1st year and the seniors had tried to rag them too by imposing dress code on them. I, along with my friend, Ashish Tamang, protested against this. Since then, we have been their targets. They accused us of being communal because we tried to protect our juniors from being ragged. Of the 6 1st yr students, 2 of them were not allocated hostel rooms so we had kept them with us, which we later found out was not allowed as per hostel rule. Taking this opportunity, on the night of 22nd August, few seniors, including Manik Halder, one of those who have been suspended gathered outside my room. They told me to take away the 1st years. They were shouting, using filthy language, and threatened me that they would beat me up if I didn’t take the 1st yr student away by the next day. I disccused this matter with my friends and decided to take them away as we didn’t want any trouble. The next day i.e on the night of 23rd August, a group of senior students gathered outside my room while I was in the bathroom just beside my room. I knew from their voices that they were the same people who had come the previous day. They were shouting my name and said something about 1st year student. Then I heard a sound of breaking glass. When I came out of the bathroom I found that my windowpane had been broken. Seeing this I went to the AGC of our campus to talk about this. He assured that he would talk with those people and called for a meeting with those guys later. Accompanied by my friend Ashish, I went to meet them. Many fourth year students had gathered. As I was very angry at that moment I talked very rudely with them. Manik Halder, the leader of group was there. I told him that if he had any problem with me than come to me directly, there was no need to break my glass in my absence. But those seniors asked me to prove that he, Manik Halder had broken the glass. As I was in the bathroom and could only hear his voice I had no evidence to prove him guilty. However, later on during the investigation they admitted to the dean of the students that they were present there.
Following this they started saying I had put false allegation on the seniors and being a junior I disrespected them, so I have to apologize. This was totally insane. I thought why should I apologize when I have no fault. Anyone would get angry if someone breaks his or her glass for no reason. They were threatening me to beat me up and even said that they were above the authority and even the authority can take no action against them. When I refused to apologize since I had no fault, one of the seniors, Anupam, the other student who has been suspended, slapped me on my face. This could have worsened the situation but thanks to Ashish, he controlled the situation and advised me to say sorry and go away from there.
Later on other seniors assured me that such things wont happen again and no one would bother me. But that was not to be and again on the morning of 25th august, I found a lump of feces/human stool on my door, which was disgusting. I was very much sure that people who did this were the same people who broke my glass and slapped me… No one else would have done that.
Following this I lodged a complaint with the hostel superintendent and to the UGC.
The authority set up an enquiry committee and those two students were found guilty and suspended from the college.
This situation arose because of the fact that they tried to rag the 1st year students. I want to know from you guys, is this not ragging? Or a framed ragging case as projected by the protestors?
[Inputs by: Rinchen Tamang, if you copy-paste this please credit the original source]
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