Overview
- A 39-second video posted on September 23 shows a first-year ITI student stripped and struck with a slipper in a government-run hostel room in Chekkanurani, Madurai.
- Police registered an FIR based on the victim’s father’s complaint, citing the Tamil Nadu Prohibition of Ragging Act along with assault and criminal intimidation provisions under the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita.
- All three accused are juveniles who were detained, produced before the juvenile authority and later granted bail, with a separate juvenile proceeding to follow.
- A senior ITI official clarified the accused were the victim’s classmates rather than seniors, and the institute has suspended the three students.
- The hostel warden has been suspended and the education department opened an inquiry, while the district police chief stated the case is ragging-related and not caste-based.