Kozhikode: Eight Malayali students, were allegedly beaten up and held back by the college management in Namakkal, Tamil Nadu, for resisting the attack on one among them in the men’s hostel.
The students, who escaped from captivity by jumping the hostel wall, reached their homes in trucks.
One of the students who was undergoing treatment in Government General hospital (Beach), Kozhikode, complained at Vellayil police.
Shinto K., first year mechanical engineering diploma student at Excel Group of Institutions, Namakkal, complained that his roommate, Shafeeq, from Palakkad, was beaten up with a cane by their hostel warden, and in a scuffle that followed, the warden fell on the floor. In retaliation to that incident, the students were locked up in a room in the hostel on January 9 and beaten up with leather belts and logs.
He added that mobile phones of students were taken up by authorities so that they could not contact the outside world. After complaining to the principal, the phones were returned and on Tuesday night, they jumped the wall and boarded some cargo lorries that came on the way. Vellayil police registered a case and investigating. Shinto, son of Ramesan, hails from Pantheerankavu.
