Overview

• A video showed second-year students beating and trying to administer electric shocks to two first-year hostel residents on August 7.
• Police have identified six accused—including one minor held in custody until August 22—and arrested five others while searching for any suspects still at large.
• Investigators registered a case under the Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes (Prevention of Atrocities) Act and relevant sections of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita.
• Palnadu district administration dismissed hostel warden M. Deepika, ordered action against the watchman and expelled two intermediate second-year students linked to the assault.
• The incident has exposed gaps in hostel supervision and raised questions about enforcement of anti-ragging measures as legal actions proceed.