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Five students of the Indira Gandhi National Tribal University (IGNTU) successful Madhya Pradesh’s Anuppur person been booked for allegedly assaulting an Assamese pupil connected campus, constabulary said connected Friday (January 16, 2026). The 5 students person besides been expelled from the Central university.
Hirosh Jyoti Das, 22, an MA Economics student, was allegedly brutally assaulted wrong a hostel astatine astir 4 a.m. connected January 13, by 5 students who arrived astatine his country successful a drunken state. Mr. Das, who hails from Assam’s Sonitpur district, has a breached chemoreceptor and has suffered injuries adjacent his eyes arsenic good arsenic different parts of his body.
An FIR was registered connected January 14 against Anurag Pandey, Jatin Singh, Rajnish Tripathi, Vishal Yadav, and Utkarsh Singh, each undergraduate students of antithetic courses, based connected a ailment from Mr. Das. The accused person been booked nether Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita Sections 296, 115(2), 351(3), and 3(5), according to Anuppur Superintendent of Police Moti Ur Rahman.
‘No racism complaint’
Mr. Rahman, however, denied that immoderate radical slurs were made by the accused.
“The unfortunate has besides not mentioned immoderate specified happening successful his complaint. There are astir 25 students from northeastern States astatine the IGNTU and nary ailment astir racism has ever been received,” helium told The Hindu.
“That day, the accused boys barged into the victim’s country arsenic immoderate of them utilized to unrecorded successful that country successful the past. The accused were drunk and an statement broke retired betwixt them, aft which they assaulted Mr. Das,” the SP said, adding that an probe is underway successful the matter.
‘I americium scared’
Meanwhile, the IGNTU medication expelled the 5 accused students connected January 14, based connected recommendations from a nine-member interior probe committee that had been constituted aft the incident. The accused students person been fixed 15 days to record their replies.
Mr. Das has besides issued a video connection expressing fearfulness for his beingness and relating the incidental to the brutal execution of Anjel Chakma, a 24-year-old MBA pupil from Tripura, successful a radical onslaught successful Uttarakhand past month.
“I americium scared. Who volition support maine if those radical onslaught maine again astatine night? I don’t privation to dice present the mode a Tripura lad was murdered successful Dehradun. I americium the lone lad of my family. I privation to execute thing successful beingness and not get into specified fights,” Mr. Das said, urging the authorities to guarantee his safety.
