Guwahati, April 18: Yet again a case of senior students thrashing junior student has come to light from the National Institute of Technology (NIT) in Assam’s Silchar.

The authorities of NIT Silchar have immediately suspended five final semester engineering students for assaulting a junior on Tuesday.

Another six students have been rusticated from hostel and nine others have received warnings for being involved in the same incident.

Talking to media persons, NIT Silchar Registrar KL Baishnab said, “The decision was taken after a thorough internal investigation followed by multiple meetings with the faculties and legal teams.”

On March 31, a fourth semester student, Siddhant Paitya and his classmate were allegedly thrashed by a group of eighth semester students inside the campus following a verbal exchange.

A day later he lodged an FIR against 18 seniors at Ghungoor Police Outpost with the help of his family members.

Meanwhile, the authorities of NIT Silchar on Tuesday issued a notice about the actions taken against the accused students.

On the other hand, the dean of students’ welfare department in the order wrote that five final semester students will face academic suspension.

According to Cachar superintendent of police Numal Mahatta, he met the victim in the hospital and also talked to the NIT Silchar authorities about it.

Academic suspension for the current semester has been imposed on Sparsh Munakhia, Mehul Dewangan, Prafful Chauhan, Yogesh Kakodia and Vishwajeet Niranjan Kant.

They are debarred from the hostel for that period and a warning letter to be issued.

For six students namely Abhijit Kalita, Biki Das, Sourav Jyoti Deka, Rishav Anand, Subham Srivastava, the dean wrote, “They are debarred from the hostel for the current semester with immediate effect and a warning letter to be issued.”

Warning letter will also be issued against Naman Tyagi, Satyabrata Borah, Dhritman Das, Subradeep Gogo, Yash Tripathy, Vivek Singh, Prateek Vij, Susmit Gupta and Arunangshu Roy.

Another student named Robin Paul has been debarred from the hostel for one month with immediate effect and a warning letter has been issued.