SMCH: Not PG, but the 4 suspended from hostel are UG students 

Yesterday, Barak Bulletin published a report stating five post graduate students of Silchar Medical College and Hospital has been suspended from the hostels for a period of six months for being involved in a brawl. As it turns out, the suspended students were undergraduate juniors and not post graduate seniors.

It was also stated in the story that ragging was the root cause which lead to the brawl, principal cum chief superintendent of SMCH Dr Babul Bezbaruah denied any incidences of ragging in the college premises. “It was a fight between the junior undergraduate students. There were some personal differences which lead to this fight, there was no ragging what so ever,” he says.

Clarrifying, “No PG students were involved in the brawl. The four suspended students are from outside and have secured admission in SMCH through centre quota.”

The four students can continue with their curriculum but for the next six months, they will have to arrange for their accommodation outside the campus.

Dr Tinku Borah, President, PGT Union, wrote to us pointing a possible error in the reported story. Our correspondent reached out to him and he said, “Yes it is true that something happened in SMCH around 3AM Tuesday morning but PG students had nothing to do with it. It is an issue within the UG students in the campus. The post graduate students were not involved in any of this.”

Dr. Babul Bezbaruah had earlier informed us that he along with couple of other professors rushed to the hostel at night to take a stalk of the situation. “We went there late night and calmed the situation,” said Bezbaruah, speaking to Barak Bulletin. He added, “Yesterday (Wednesday) we decided to suspend the four UG students involved in the brawl from hostel and now they will have to arrange their accommodation outside the campus.”

The principal requested us not to publish the names of the students and therefore we kept it anonymous.

Formal apology:

In our earlier story we mentioned five PG students were suspended from hostels where it should have been four UG students. We received the information from the authority but there was a misinterpretation which led to this honest mistake. We hold ourselves responsible and apologise to all our readers for the mistake we made.