Overview
- Police say an FIR names more than twenty senior students and one outsider after reports of ragging at the Aakash Group of Institutions in Devanahalli.
- Three students have been arrested and sent to judicial custody, notices have been issued to others named in the FIR, and teams are searching for absconding suspects.
- According to the complaint, seniors allegedly forced first-year students to fetch cigarettes and drinks and perform menial tasks despite prior warnings from college authorities.
- The confrontation near a tea stall on January 15 allegedly turned violent, with assaults using iron rods, sticks and stones, a car vandalised, threats issued, and a gold chain snatched, with police noting the victims include minors.
- The case has been registered under multiple sections of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita and the Karnataka Education Act, and investigators have seized nearby CCTV footage for verification.