Seniors beat up student for keeping beard in Kerala

A polytechnic student from Kozhikode was allegedly ragged and beaten up by a gang of senior students for keeping a beard.  

 In a police complaint filed by Muhammed Nisnnal Mansoor, a B-Arch student of a private college in Kozhikde alleged that he was beaten up by the final year students for not shaving off his beard.  A case has been lodged against 40 senior students following the complaint.  

"I was ragged for not  shaving off beard. First they warned me in the afternoon and when the classes were over and when I was going home, a gang of around 40 senior students stopped me and four of them thrashed me. They hit my head and kicked," complains Mansoor who is undergoing treatment at a hospital in Kozhikode.

The incident is just another case of ragging reported in quick succession after a Malayalee Dalit student was allegedly forced to drink toilet lotion  by Keralite students at a Karnataka college. 

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