New Delhi, Aug 24: Bowing to pressure from Human Resource Development Ministry, IIT authorities have expelled four students from the institute here for six months in connection with the ragging of a fresher. The decision to expel the students came after a meeting yesterday, IIT sources said today.
The institute authorities had earlier expelled the students from the hostel for ragging first year student Prakash Rajpurohit.
However, the HRD Ministry had expressed "displeasure" at the mild punishment given to the guilty students.
HRD Minister Murli Manohar Joshi, taking serious note of the incident, had ordered a probe into the ragging and warned that the hostel would be shut down if such incidents recur. Bureau Report