Khammam: Faculty takes medical student to barber shop, gets head tonsured, enquiry ordered

Hyderabad: A faculty member of Government Medical College in Khammam district, Telangana allegedly took a student to a barber shop and got his head tonsured, prompting the government to order an enquiry into the incident, officials said on Sunday.

Taking a serious view of the incident which happened on November 12, Telangana Health Minister Damodar Raja Narasimha ordered an enquiry over the matter and to initiate action against those responsible.

It is not ragging, the officials said.

According to state government officials, a first year medical student from Mulugu of erstwhile Warangal district was said to have been harassed by second year students.

Some seniors in the hostel mocked the first year student many times because of his hairstyle that resembled a Chinese hairstyle, told that his hairstyle was not proper for a medical college student and asked him to get it trimmed.

After the student got his hair trimmed, an assistant professor, in-charge medical officer of the anti-ragging committee Dr Rahman, who also stays in the hostel, told him "it was looking odd" and took him to a salon and got his head shaved, the officials said.

After the matter came to the notice of the principal, he ordered removal of the medical officer from the hostel on Saturday and also set up a committee to enquire into the incident.

The principal said it was not good on part of the assistant professor to indulge in such an activity.

According to the faculty, it was not his intention to do so, but only to discipline the student.