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India’s ragging menace: Horror stories from across campuses

HT takes a look at five prominent ragging cases across the country over the last 2 years, some of which resulted in the deaths of junior students

Updated on: Mar 14, 2025, 01:20:31 IST

By Shailee Dogra, Senjuti Sengupta, Vishnu Varma, Biswa Kalyan Purkayastha, Maulik Pathak

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15 years after Aman Kachroo, history repeats at Himachal varsity

Students sign a “no ragging” pledge on the first day of new academic year in Delhi University. (HT File)

On the night of March 6, 2009, Aman Kachroo and several other first-year medical students at the Rajendra Prasad Medical College in Tanda, Himachal Pradesh, were summoned to the seniors’ hostel. Four drunk senior students —Ajay Verma, Naveen Verma, Mukul Sharma, all from the second year and Abhinav Verma who was doing his internship in the college at that time—began what started as verbal humiliation but quickly escalated to physical

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...Read MoreVishnu Varma is Assistant Editor and reports from Kerala for the Hindustan Times. He has 10 years of experience writing for print and digital platforms and has worked at The New York Times, NDTV and The Indian Express in the past. He specialises in longform reportage at the intersections of politics, crime, social commentary and environment. Read Less

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...Read MoreHe is an Ahmedabad-based journalist with more than two decades of experience. His career spans business journalism and general news, with reporting across politics, crime, governance, public policy, business, industry, infrastructure, energy, ports, aviation, the environment, wildlife and social issues. He began his career in feature writing before moving into business journalism, reporting on companies and sectors including energy, infrastructure, pharmaceuticals, automobiles and real estate. Over the years, his work expanded to politics, courts, crime, public policy, civic affairs, the environment and wildlife. His reporting has taken him from government offices and courtrooms to factory floors, ports, forests and remote villages, covering stories that range from industrial investments and financial markets to elections, conservation and issues affecting everyday life. While many assignments demand the pace of the daily news cycle, others require sustained reporting over months and years to follow developments beyond the headlines. He started his journalism career with the Asian Age in Ahmedabad in 2002 as a feature writer and sub-editor. Since 2022, he has been working with Hindustan Times. Earlier, he worked with Business Standard, DNA, The Economic Times, Mint and The Times of India. His longest stint was with Mint, where he spent more than eight years reporting across multiple beats. During his career, he has worked in both reporting and editing roles, contributing to page planning, local editions and special editorial projects as newsrooms evolved from print-first operations to digital publishing. Early in his career, he also worked on media and documentary projects with an NGO and as a copywriter at a communications agency before returning to journalism. Away from work, he sometimes makes time for a pair of binoculars, table tennis, cinema and the occasional poem. Read Less

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