IIT student thrashed for holding beef fest still in ICU
June 05, 2017  14:12
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R Sooraj, the PhD scholar from IIT-Madras, who was thrashed by students believed to have an allegiance to right-wing groups, for holding a beef festival in the campus, is still in the ICU.

Sooraj's friend told Rediff.com that the PhD scholar was hit so hard on the eye, that the bone below the eye was fractured. He underwent surgery two days ago and is recuperating at the ICU of a private hospital.

The beef festival was held last week to protest the central government's ban on the sale of cattle for slaughter at animal markets. The organiser of the festival at the prestigious institution told Rediff.com that six to seven students surrounded Sooraj, an aerospace engineering student during the lunch hour at the hostel canteen and attacked him.

No action has been taken either by IIT or the Chennai police on the assaulters, say the students.

-- A Ganesh Nadar in Chennai.
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