The Bhoiwada police has booked 16 persons, including a hostel warden and students from GS Medical College attached to KEM Hospital for ragging and subjecting a third year medical student to casteist slurs. The student had complained of ragging nearly a month ago at a press conference. In his statement to the police, he said that even after raising an alarm about the incident, the hospital administration didn’t take any action.

The student, a resident of Hingoli district in Maharashtra, is in his third year of Occupational Therapy at The GS Medical College. In December 2021, he alleged that he was being harassed, both physically and mentally by his roommates and classmates over his caste. The alleged torture, which began in December 2018, led to him to skip a year.