**Bhubaneswar**: A team of police from Visakhapatnam have started their investigation into the much talked about ‘ragging’ case in which the father of the ragging victim Shreyas Keshwani has alleged that he was tortured by his hostelmates in the name of ragging during the last week of December which has caused his death.
“I have interrogated the doctors who treated the student Shreyas Keshwani and am awaiting the post-mortem report. Because the doctors have given treated only in unconscious state and the student had repeated cardiac arrests. They are unable to pin point the cause of death,” informed K Lakshman Murthy, the inspector in-charge of PM Palem police station.
Talking on the investigation conducted at Sri Chaitanya Junior College hostel, he said that no such evidence of ragging has come up.
Speaking to OMMCOM NEWS, Vishakhapatnam Police Commissioner, T Yoganand had said, “We received a transferred case from Odisha Police and re-registered it and took up the investigation. The investigating officers are on the job, and it is premature to jump to a conclusion (on the cause of the student’s death) at this stage.”
From Bhubaneswar, this team would first go to Sambalpur to meet the parents of the victim and then to Rourkela for investigation, informed the cop.
On the other hand, Shreyas’ family has levelled serious allegations that he was ragged by his hostelmates during the last week of December. His father rushed to Vishakhapatnam and brought him back to Rourkela where he was admitted to Ispat General Hospital (IGH).
“Shreyas was tortured by a few boys of Prashanti boys’ hostel. He informed the college authorities about the incident but no action was taken by the administration,” his father said. The hostel administration, however, claimed that he had knee pain and no ragging has occurred.
A video doing rounds shows clearly the victim narrating his nightmarish ordeal and naming his tormentors between hiccups.
Notably, on January 4, as Shreyas’ condition deteriorated, the doctors at IGH referred him to a private hospital in the State Capital.
Shreyas was admitted to Care Hospital on the wee hours of January 5, but he died within six hours of the admission.
On the basis of a complaint lodged by Shreyas’ father Sambalpur police registered a case of unnatural death and transferred FIR to Vishakhapatnam. While an ASI and two Constables of Sambalpur police had gone to the neighbouring State, their job was limited to formal handing over of the FIR.
On the other hand, local public at Shreyas’s native in Garposh under Bamra Tehsil in Sambalpur had launched a protest demanding high level inquiry into the death of the minor student.