Police record statements of ragging victims

Police record statements of ragging victims
HERALD REPORTER
PANJIM, AUG 20
Even as nine students of the Goa Medical College arrested for ragging were released on bail, Agassaim police on Friday recorded statements of all seven witnesses.
Speaking to Deputy Superintendent of Police Deu Benaulikar, told Herald that a chargesheet against the alleged accused MBBS students will be filed shortly. He did not specify any date to filing the chargesheet, though.
“We have already quizzed the accused students and  also completed recording statements of the seven junior students who were ragged. A charge sheet will soon be  filed after we record statements of Goa Medical College Dean Dr V N Jindal and warden of the hostel Dr C P Das,” said the officer. 
It is learnt that the victims told police that the senior students asked them to kneel down and salute.
Earlier, GMC authorities expelled the accused students from the hostel for ragging the first year MBBS students, on Thursday.
Warden of the hostel Dr C P Das caught the nine students in action following which he intimated the authorities and subsequently lodged a complaint at Agassaim police station.
All these students including those involved in ragging and victim juniors were enrolled from All India Quota, studying various courses of MBBS.