Seniors force first year BTech students to watch porn, imitate acts in Bhopal college

A group of first year BTech students at a well known college in Bhopal have accused their seniors of ragging, by forcing them to watch pornography and imitate it.

According to a Hindustan Times report, senior students of Maulana Azad National Institute of Technology (MANIT), Bhopal, have forced the juniors to imitate pornographic acts for months now.

The matter came to light on Saturday when the male students who were ragged lodged a complaint on the national anti-ragging helpline. The helpline in turn contacted the institute.

The seniors call the juniors to their hostel rooms, forcibly show them porn movies and ask them to imitate the acts, the complainants alleged. The number of complainants though is not clear.

"Junior students are very disturbed with their activities in the hostel. Earlier too, complaints were lodged against them, but the management didn’t take strict action against them. This encouraged them further to continue ragging inside the campus," a first year student said to HT on condition of anonymity.

The junior students said they had given a bunch of 150 ragging-related complaints against the same seniors a few months ago to in-charge director MM Malik, but no action was taken. MM Malik claimed he had received no such complaints.

MANIT director Appu Kuttan however told HT that the college had just received a complaint and was looking into it.