4 IIT-Bombay students torture, beat boy from Rajasthan over girl

The assault took place inside one of the hostel rooms at the IITB campus in Powai on December 24Four IITBombay students are in the dock for assaulting and torturing a student from Rajasthan who was in the city to attend the collegersquos annual Mood Indigo festival While investigations are still on the studentrsquos friendship with a girl in Ajmer which has caused problems in the past is suspected to be the reason behind the assault According to the police the victim Ashutosh Bagora 20 who originally hails from Kota in Rajasthan had come along with a group of 25 students from the College of Engineering in Ajmer to participate at the Mood Indigo festival last weekSince Bagora couldnrsquot find any accommodation in town he decided to stay with his friend Divyanshu Vijay who lives in the IITBombay hostelBagora alleged that on December 24 around 230 am when he was at one of the events he received a call from Vijay ldquoHe asked him to return to the hostel immediately as it was really late and his roommates wanted to knock off to bedrdquo an officer with the Powai police saidHowever when Bagora entered the hostel building Shubham Pande who was part of the group that was visiting from Ajmer stopped him on the first floor of the building Pande got hold of Bagora and dragged him to Vjiayrsquos room ldquoApart from Vijay there were four other boys from the Ajmer college mdash Divyansh Chaudhary 20 Utkarsh Sharma 20 Sanchit Shriwastav 18 and Sobit Kankaria 19 mdash waiting for him in the roomrdquo the officer saidChaudhary allegedly showed Bagora a photograph of a man and asked him to identify the person When Bagora identified him as Rajat Shukla Chaudhary slapped him and asked Bagora to address Shukla as ldquoRajat BhaiyyardquoMeanwhile Vijay tried to pacify Chaudhary but the others started beating him up When Bagora started crying out in pain Vijay managed to get him out and take him to his friend Shivang Sharmarsquos room However his problems didnrsquot end thereSometime later Vijay returned and told Bagora that the boys wanted to discuss a matter concerning his girlfriend The two returned to Vijayrsquos room again and this time the group made a phone call to Shukla who was in Ajmer ldquoHe instructed them to beat him uprdquo the official saidSoon after the call Bagora was asked to go and buy a pack of cigarettes from the college gate When he returned the torture escalated ldquoThe boys told me to remove my shirt and asked me to dance to one Rajasthani song Since I was terribly frightened I did as they saidrdquo Bagora said in his statement After this Chaudhary asked him to dance like a bargirl When Bagora started crying loudly the group started beating him up againA security guard heard his cries and rushed up to inquire but the group told the guard that they were celebrating Bagorarsquos birthdayAfter the threehour ordeal the boys finally let off Bagora but warned him against informing anyone about the assault ldquoThey beat my son like an animal and also tortured him with cigarette buttsrdquo Savita Bagorarsquos mother has alleged Following Bagorarsquos complaint the police booked Sharma Pande Chaudhary and Shukla under Sections 342 wrongful confinement 323 voluntarily causing hurt 504 intentional insult 506 criminal Intimidation 109 and 34 common intention of the IPC