Tech student lands in prison for ragging girl.
For the first time in north Coastal Andhra, a student has been sent to judicial remand under the AntiRagging Act and his admission cancelled by the college management where he was pursuing his course.
The Anandapuram police, which picked up the youth outside the college premises on Wednesday, said Botsa Vinod Kumar, a fourth-year engineering (ECE group) student of VITAM Engineering College had been harassing a first-year student, Ms Kasi Mounika, since she took admission this year. He had often accosted her and forced her
to say, “I love you”.
The girl ignored his overtures for some time but lost patience on Tuesday when he started following her from Old Dairy Farm, where she boards the rickshaw or bus to go to the college. When she tried to board an autorickshaw, he shooed the auto driver away and forced her into a rick
shaw hired by him.
Throughout the journey he went on forcing her to say she loved him.
After getting down from the rickshaw, she went straight to the principal’s office and lodged a formal complaint of ragging against Vinod Kumar. The principal forwarded her complaint to the college’s anti-ragging committee.
The committee after inquiry found Vinod Kumar guilty and asked to the principal to take action against him under the Anti-Ragging Act.
The principal filed a complaint with the Anandapuram police station attaching the committee recommendations and the complaint lodged by Ms Mounika.
Source: DC