Noida SHOCKER: Seniors caught on camera brutally thrashing, stripping, sexually assaulting media student

Noida: Three students of a private institute here have been caught on camera while thrashing, stripping and sexually assaulting a junior. They video recorded the whole incident to blackmail the 18-year-old victim for money. The incident took place at Asian School of Graphics & Animation at Sector 16A in Noida. The victim is a first year student of animation course offered by the institute which is a unit of Marwah Studios. Ironically, college authorities allegedly did not take any stern action against the assaulters when the incident was brought in the former's notice. They simply seized the mobile phones and the boy was sent back to his hometown Karnal in Haryana. In order hush up the matter, the college management said it was a case of "personal dispute between the students, and not ragging". "I was ragged and tortured, brutally beaten, they tried to sexually abuse me. They stay in my hostel. They are my seniors, they try to bully me, but the college didn't take any action, they only wanted a compromise," the victim, who cannot be identified for legal reasons, has been quoted by NDTV as saying. The police have lodged an FIR in this regard and also booked the accused students for unnatural sexual acts. The police said they have registered a case of ragging and extortion and also booked the accused students for unnatural sexual acts. "A case has been lodged under the Anti-Ragging Act, 2010 and under sections 377, 511, 504, 506, 384, 341 and 323 of the IPC," said Noida DSP Shivram Yadav. No one has been arrested so far. "Our teams have been dispatched to Gorakhpur and Jalandhar to apprehend the accused. We will soon make arrests," Yadav added. The Supreme Court has banned ragging and the government has strictly prohibited it on campus. Yet, ragging is regular in educational institutions of Uttar Pradesh. The state registered 432 ragging cases - the highest in the country followed by West Bengal (283 cases) - between June 2009 and September 24, 2013, according to the national anti-ragging helpline (1800-180-55-22) data.