Lucknow student ragged, suffers nervous breakdown

COLLECTED BY: RISHI KAPOOR


Until Friday, Sanjay Pal Singh was, by all his friends' accounts, a cheerful, extroverted young man.
But today, this first year student of Lucknow’s Sahara Arts and Management Academy lies on a hospital bed, his arms and legs bound, his body bruised. The only words he utters are cries for help.
Sanjay was subjected to extreme ragging in his hostel on Friday, so brutal it gave him a nervous breakdown.
His classmates are shocked. “He was a very cheerful student and was not mentally unstable,” says his classmate Ambika Chaudhry.
Sanjay stayed in Madiyav, the private hostel of the institute. Many engineering and management students from Lucknow University also live there, and police sources say some of them were responsible for ragging Sanjay. Something has happened to him, we can find out only once we meet him,” says another of his classmates, Ravi Kumar.
Police have registered a case against five students. “A case against three people has been lodged. The boy's father has complained of physical and mental torture and we will soon find out who is guilty,” says Deputy Superintendent of Police (Mahanagar), Rajendra Singh.
Doctors at the hospital where Sanjay is admitted say his wounds are healing. They are hoping that, with time, his mind can too.