Thirteen students of a private nursing college in Coimbatore were booked for allegedly ragging a first-year student in the college hostel. While four were arrested and eventually released on bail, another nine students accused in the same case are yet to be arrested.
The accused are second-year students at the PPG College of Nursing. The complainant, a 20-year-old first-year student from Panmana village of Kollam district in Kerala, reportedly said in his complaint that the senior students allegedly took him to their room in the hostel and ragged him for a long time, and even slapped him.