Seven Keralite students of an engineering college at Namakkal in Tamil Nadu have been arrested for the murder of a junior Malayalee student of the same college. The third year engineering students had killed the junior student by crashing their car into his motorbike on Thursday evening, allegedly after a dispute over ragging.
The deceased was identified as Deepak (20), a first-year Electrical and Electronics Engineering student and son of V Padmanabhan and Sheela of Kannur. Another junior of the same college Dineesh Joseph, who was travelling on the bike with Deepak, had been admitted to a hospital at Coimbatore with serious head injuries.
Those arrested were Shebin, Danish and Mithun of Kannur, Amal from Wayanad, Ashwant and lijo from Kozhikode and Davis from Ernakulam, reports said. They have been charged under IPC sections concerning murder, attempt to murder, rioting using lethal weapons and creation of tension.
As per reports from Namakkal, there was an altercation between Deepak and the senior students over ragging on Thursday morning. It is said that the senior students hit the motorbike on which Deepak and Dineesh were travelling with their car in the evening.