Raggers to appear in Court

Asela Kuruluwansa and Samanthi Weerasekara

Kandy Acting Magistrate Jayani de Alwis on Thursday issued notice on 25 undergraduates of the Peradeniya University to appear in Court in connection with a case involving the alleged sexual abuse of a student of the University's Art Faculty during ragging.

The acting Magistrate issued this notice after considering a request made by the CID.

The CID in its plaint submitted to court that a team of CID officials conducted an investigation into an incident of ragging where a student of the Peradeniya University Arts Faculty was subjected to sexual abuse had received treatment at the psychiatric ward of the Peradeniya Teaching Hospital.

Following statements obtained from several second year students of the university the names of the 25 students transpired as persons involved in the ragging incident.

Sources said the particular student from Beliatte who suffered severe mental trauma due to inhumane ragging had received treatment at the Peradeniya hospital for nearly two weeks and pronounced a mental patient by the doctors.