Ruhunu senior undergrad suspended

December 23, 2011, 9:46 pm

By Nilantha Maduarawala, The Island

The Ruhuna University administration has suspended a senior female undergraduate of the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences for admitting a junior colleague, injured in a ragging incident, to a hospital without informing the authorities, university sources said.

The junior female student, belonging to the first year batch, had been ragged by seniors and her spinal cord had been damaged, hospital sources said adding that the injured had been transported to Matara Hospital in a tri-shaw, which mode of transport was believed to have worsened the injury.

The injured student had been transferred to Colombo National Hospital under instruction of Higher Education Minister S. B. Dissanayake, Vice Chancellor of the university Prof Gamini Senanayake told The Island yesterday.

The university would conduct an internal investigation into the incident and those found guilty would be dealt with severely, Prof. Senanayake said.