Ragging in Madurai: Teen scholar stripped, thrashed by batchmates at authorities ITI hostel

In a stunning incident of ragging, a 14-year-old scholar of a authorities industrial coaching institute (ITI) was stripped and mercilessly crushed up by three of his batchmates on the hostel in Chekkanoorani close to Usilampatti in Madurai district. The torture was filmed by a scholar. While the crime came about on Thursday (September 18, 2025), a video clip of the identical was shared broadly on Tuesday (September 23) triggering outrage.

The Madurai district police, appearing on a criticism from the sufferer boy’s father, have registered a case and commenced investigation. Police stated the accused boys have been aged 15 and 17 years.

The sufferer, a primary yr scholar on the ITI, hails from Varusanadu in Theni district and was staying within the college students’ hostel run by the Tamil Nadu authorities’s Department of Kallar Reclamation. He had joined ITI after passing class VIII. The accused, who have been older than the boy in age, have been additionally learning within the first yr of ITI course.

Inquiry with three accused juveniles

“It is a case of ragging and never caste-based violence,” in accordance with B.Okay. Arvind, Madurai Superintendent of Police.

The police have picked up the accused juveniles for inquiry. Cases have been booked underneath the Tamil Nadu Prohibition of Ragging Act, 1997, assault and prison intimidation, police stated.