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The Kerala High Court has orally expressed interest implicit complaints of alleged ill-treatment of students astatine aesculapian colleges successful the State.
The tribunal was proceeding an anticipatory bail plea filed by M.K. Ram, erstwhile caput of the Department of Anatomy astatine Kannur Medical College, successful a lawsuit registered against him pursuing the alleged termination of a BDS pupil successful April.
Dr. Ram was arraigned arsenic the premier accused successful the lawsuit related to the decease of Nithin Raj, a first-year BDS pupil astatine a backstage absorption assemblage successful Anjarakandy, Kannur. He was recovered dormant connected the field connected April 10 aft allegedly being subjected to harassment connected the ground of his caste and complexion.
Opposing the bail plea, the prosecution submitted that the proceedings tribunal had denied bail to Dr. Ram based connected statements made by the deceased student’s classmates.
The High Court past orally observed that the authorities ought to instrumentality enactment of what was happening successful aesculapian colleges. Many were not adjacent disclosing specified incidents. A committee could beryllium constituted, a study obtained connected specified incidents, and remedial measures and guidelines formulated, it said.
Dr. Ram, who was dismissed from work pursuing the student’s death, approached the tribunal seeking anticipatory bail aft the Kannur District and Principal Sessions Court dismissed his plea. The tribunal had granted bail to co-accused Sangeetha Nambiar, an Associate Professor astatine the college.
The substance has been posted for proceeding connected Monday.
