A first year engineering student was hospitalised after a brutal assault by four seniors as part of ragging at a government-run university campus here, police said on Friday.
Jagjeevan, studying in B.Tech first year of mechanical engineering at the M.J.P. Rohilkhand University, was on Thursday beaten by a group of four senior students of B. Tech third year of the same stream.
According to police, Jagjeevan in his complaint has alleged that the four seniors - Vivek Mathur, Sumit Kumar, Aseem and Himanshu - first directed him to perform awkward actions while singing a song.
After Jagjeevan refused, the seniors started kicking him and even attacked him with belts and stones.
"Jagjeevan has received injuries in his head. He is being treated at a hospital and is stated to be out of danger," police inspector Netram Singh told reporters Friday in Bareilly, some 250 km from Lucknow.
"We have initiated a joint enquiry into the matter along with the varsity officials. Necessary action would be taken against the four students on completion of enquiry. All of them are absconding," he added.