Pune: The Deccan Gymkhana police are investigating a complaint filed by a 35-year-old second-year law student, who has accused five classmates at ILS Law College in Pune of ragging him in the boys’ hostel of the college between Oct and Dec 2024. The complainant hails from Dharashiv district while the five students he has named in the FIR are parts of Maharashtra and north Indian states.The college authorities said the complaint pertains to an incident reported nearly two years ago when a college committee had conducted an inquiry and submitted a report to University Grants Commission (UGC) in March 2025, stating that no ragging had taken place as alleged. They added that there was no further discussion on the matter at the time, and it has now resurfaced in the form of a police complaint.“We registered an FIR on Saturday night under Sections 3 (prohibition of ragging) and 4 (penalty for ragging) of the Maharashtra Prohibition of Ragging Act, 1999, based on the student’s complaint,” senior inspector Girisha Nimbalkar of Deccan Gymkhana police on Sunday. “The student had approached our senior police officers a few months ago with his complaint, and a formal FIR has now been registered,” she added.The senior inspector said, “There is an age difference between the complainant and the five students, who are all in their 20s and are second-year LLB students. As per the complaint, the five students used to comment and crack jokes about him on the hostel premises. They also allegedly teased him, leading to verbal confrontations between them and the complainant. We will record statements of the students and the college administration during the course of our investigation,” Nimbalkar added.Officiating principal Deepa Paturkar, who also heads the anti-ragging committee at the ILS Law College, told TOI on Sunday that the college had conducted an inquiry into the ragging complaint in 2024. “There was some issue between students and following the complaint from a student, our college committee conducted the inquiry, and a report was submitted to the University Grants Commission (UGC) in this matter in March 2025,” Paturkar said.She added that the report stated there was no ragging, contrary to the student’s claim. “After that there was no discussion regarding this matter from the students or anyone else and suddenly on Sunday we got to know about this police complaint. I am still unaware of its contents. We assumed that the matter was closed last year post-submission of the report to the UGC,” she added.
