54 students of IT university in Andhra Pradesh suspended for mass ragging hindustantimes.com

More than 50 students of a government university in Andhra Pradesh were suspended on charges of ragging juniors, the biggest such crackdown in the state, officials said on Tuesday.

The 54 students were suspended on Monday after a probe confirmed the mass ragging on August 29 at the Rajiv Gandhi University of Knowledge Technologies at Nuzvid in Krishna district.

India enacted stringent anti-ragging laws in 2009 and the government set up helplines for lodging complaints. But physical abuse of junior students continue across campuses with a majority of the victims remaining silent.