New Delhi, Aug 20: The Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi, today threw out five students from its hostel in connection with the ragging of a fresher who ranked fourth in IIT entrance examination. The decision to expel the students from the hostel was taken at a meeting of IIT disciplinary committee here yesterday, official sources said.
While two students have been expelled from hostel for two years, three others have been expelled for one year, the sources said. However, sources in the human resources development ministry expressed "displeasure" over the decision of the disciplinary committee and asked it to go into the whole issue afresh.
Taking a serious view of the ragging of Prakash Rajpurohit, HRD Minister Murli Manohar Joshi had earlier asked the IIT authorities to take action against the "guilty" with a warning that the ministry "may even go to the length of closing down the hostel". Meanwhile, sources said that while the parents of Rajpurohit had taken back the complaints lodged with the authorities, the "guilty" students had also given a written apology for the incident. Bureau Report