Pune: Parents of a first year MBBS student of BJ Medical College missing for 13 days have alleged that their son’s batchmates had been harassing and ragging him, even as the college denied the allegations after investigations. The police are also looking for the student after his father lodged an FIR.The student from Kolhapur went missing on July 18. He had told his friends he was going to visit another friend in Kharadi.BJ Medical College dean Dr Eknath Pawar said, “The boy left the college on July 18 around 11:53am. He went to a friend’s place in Kharadi and later told him that he was going to visit an uncle in Hadapsar. He has been missing since then. On July 20, the family filed an FIR at Kharadi police station regarding the disappearance.”Pawar further said, ”On July 27, the father gave us a formal application alleging that some of his son’s batchmates had been harassing and bad mouthing the boy. We formed a four-member committee of senior professors and probed the matter. Later, we received another application from the father alleging that the student’s classmates had been ragging him. The anti-ragging committee investigated and concluded that none of the batchmates had harassed the boy. We questioned the students living in the hostel against whom the parents had complained. We spoke to others as well. No one recalls any ragging incident.”“However, since the boy has been missing for many days now, we have requested Bund Garden police officers and also the police commissioner to expedite the search,” the dean added.
