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NCC Cadets beaten with stick, forced to sit face down in muddy waters by senior, Watch


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Thane, Aug 04, 2023: Several National Cadet Corps (NCC) members were violently beaten with a stick and forced to sit in a push-up position with their hands on their backs in a muddy puddle amid rain inside a college premise in Maharashtra’s Thane.

 

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The NCC officer behind the incident has now been suspended after the campus video went viral on social media.

In a purported video of the incident, at least eight NCC men are seen pushed on the ground with their heads supporting them and their hands on their backs.

 


A senior NCC member is seen walking behind with a stick and violently thrashing anyone who moves from the given position. Few men were seen howling and shouting when they were beaten on their backs, thighs and even fronts.

The incident took place at an NCC training in Thane’s Bandodkar College and the video was recorded by a student from her room.

“The NCC instructor for this unit was transferred recently. Senior cadets taking over in the absence of teachers led to this incident,” a university senate member said.

Reacting to the incident, the college’s principal  Naik said that this kind of behaviour will not be tolerated and that appropriate action will be taken against the student responsible for this.

She also said that he is an NCC students, and that this should not spoil the name of the training as a lot of good work has been done under it over several years.

The incident took place in the absence of a teacher, she added.

The Joshi Bedekar College in Thane operates the NCC unit along with two other sister concerns, Bandodkar College and VPM Polytechnic.

Meanwhile, some senate members of Mumbai University have approached the vice chancellor, seeking action against the college principal for allowing the students to act as NCC instructor after the instructor was transferred to another college.

An investigation into the incident is underway.