Thiruvananthapuram: A case has been registered against four University College students for allegedly assaulting a student with a physical disability, police said on Thursday. The complainant claimed that the accused are members of the Students’ Federation of India, though the outfit has denied the allegation. Based on a complaint filed by a 19-year-old degree student, the Cantonment police registered a case against four students on Tuesday.
The student accused the suspects of subjecting him to physical and mental abuse at the student union office on December 2, said officials. The complainant, also an SFI sympathiser, stated that the accused asked him to climb a flagpole to place flags during a function. However, he refused due to his disability, after which the accused began assaulting him in front of other students. The student claimed that the accused later took him to the student union office at the college, where they continued to assault him.
