Hindu Student Sexually Stripped, Assaulted And Forced To Chant 'Allah-hu-Akbar' In Hyderabad B-school Hostel, 10 Batchmates Booked

At Least 10 students of IBS-ICFAI Foundation for Higher Education (IFHE), a business school located on the outskirts of Hyderabad, have been charged with murder attempt after a video of them assaulting a fellow student went viral on social media.

 The student, identified as Himank Bansal, is an undergraduate law student at the IFHE in Hyderabad.

In his compliant, Bansal said that he was pushed and mishandled by other students who punched him in the face, slapped him, kicked him in the abdominal areas, touched his genitals and force-fed certain chemicals and powders, the complaint further added.

Bansal, in his complaint, said that a student even attempted to put his genitals into his mouth. "They further tried to tear my clothes, got me naked and kept beating me one after the other. They shouted 'beat him till he dies'," he stated in his complaint.

In his complaint, Bansal also mentioned that Dipasha Sharma, a friend of his from 1st year BA-LLB course, outed a private instagram chat between them in which he had discussed about references in Islamic scriptures. The girl is said to shared the screenshots to others.

The student told police that he had become a subject of widespread ridicule in the college after the video and photos of the assault were shared widely.

"The immense trauma left him with suicidal thoughts and he was unable to sleep for the past few days", Bansal said in his complaint.

Bansal told the police that his abusers had threatened to beat him up again.

Based on the compliant, the cops invoked Indian Penal Code sections 307 (murder attempt), 342 (punishment for wrongful confinement), 450 (trespass to commit an offence), 323 (voluntarily causing hurt) and 506 (criminal intimidation), read with section 149 and sections 4(I), (II), and (III) of the Prohibition of Ragging Act of 2011 against 10 students of the college.