Ragging incident in Pune medical college: Three PG students suspended

An official from the institute on Wednesday said that three postgraduate students of the staterun BJ Medical College in Pune have been suspended and removed from their hostel for allegedly ragging junior doctors reported news agency PTIThe Pune medical college took action after it received a complaint against three secondyear PG students from the Orthopaedic Department said Dr Eknath Pawar dean of the medical college which is attached to the Sassoon General Hospital reported news PTISources in the Pune medical college told PTI that the accused targeted four junior medical students from their department They allegedly harassed the juniors mentally sometimes physically and even used intimidating language the sources told PTIThe parents of the students first approached Mantralaya state secretariat in Mumbai On Monday the college authorities received a complaint We formed a committee to investigate the matter Based on the findings three PG students were suspended and removed from their hostel said Pawar reported PTIA probe is underway he addedCheating case registered against Maharashtra BJP minister Vikhe Patil 53 othersA case has been registered against Maharashtra BJP minister Radhakrishna Vikhe Patil and 53 others including directors of a sugar mill for allegedly securing loans of nearly Rs 9 crore in the names of farmers using forged documentsThe case was registered at Loni police station in Ahilyanagar district on Monday following a directive from a court in Rahata an official saidThe accused include the then chairman and directors of Padmashri Vikhe Patil Sahakari Karkhana cooperative sugar mill along with officials of the Union Bank of India and Bank of IndiaThe complaint was filed by Balasaheb Vikhe a sugarcane cultivator and member of the cooperative sugar millAs per the complaint the irregularity occurred in 2004 The then chairman and directors of the mill allegedly prepared loan proposals using fake documents in the names of memberfarmers With the help of bank officials they allegedly secured loans of Rs 311 crore and Rs 574 croreHowever the loan amounts were never credited to the accounts of the farmers in whose names the proposals had been submitted Instead the money was siphoned off by sugar mill officials and bank staff the complaint saidThe accused also allegedly benefited from a government farm loan waiver schemeThe offence was registered under relevant sections of the Indian Penal Code after the magistrates court acting on a petition filed under section 1563 of the Code of Criminal Procedure directed the police to initiate action the official saidThe section empowers a magistrate to order a police investigation into a cognizable offenceWith inputs from PTIatOptionskeyd0ddb8ef8f1a62a8cdd22fac27fc5ea7formatiframeheight90width728params