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IIT Kanpur suspends 16 students for ragging juniors
Kanpur, Oct 10 (IBNS): The Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur (IIT-K) has suspended 16 students for three years and six others for a year after they were found guilty of ragging their juniors, media reports said.
The decision was taken by the IIT-K’s senate, the apex decision-making body on Monday night.
The suspended third-year students were found guilty of making their juniors strip during ragging.
They also made them do objectionable acts to each other.
The ragging incident was recorded on cellphone and was circulated among social media groups, reports said.
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