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Tamil Nadu
Unsavoury incidents in a few hostels have turned the spotlight on the need to implement rules strictly, says L. Srikrishna A few government-run hostels in the city are back in news, for wrong reasons. Even as the traffic police find it tough to handle the ‘Bus Day’ menace perpetrated by college students, the problems plaguing these hostels have spilled onto the road, causing serious concern to the law enforcing authorities. The issue ha s all the potential to snowball into a major law and order issue, say police officers. A senior officer said, “Petty problems trigger confrontations in many hostels. Boys turn violent on petty issues, and frequently problems go beyond lawful and tolerable limits. It has assumed such a proportion that sections of hostellers engage anti-socials from outside to intimidate other inmates.” The city has a number of government-run hostels housing students from the underprivileged sections. On condition of anonymity, some students’ spoke to The Hindu on Friday about their problems. They said that though the officials’ in-charge of the hostels claim to be checking the hostellers on roll at regular intervals, they remained indifferent to outsiders staying in hostels. Many old students, who had left the hostel after completing their courses, continued to stay under the guise of searching jobs. They entertain many unknown faces for long periods, exposing other inmates to all sorts of risks. A combination of such avoidable factors led to this week’s violent incidents at the M.C. Raja Hostel in Saidapet, where some boys were attacked by an armed gang. The gang barged into the premises in two autorickshaws late in the night, and attacked some hostellers. As a mark of protest, the friends of the injured students blocked traffic in front of the hospital following which uneasy calm prevailed for a while. The Saidapet police arrested five persons and produced them before a court. Interrogation of the accused suggested that they were staying in the hostel without authorisation. As other hostellers complained to the authorities, the ‘outsiders’ unleashed violence to silence dissent, a second year student of the Government Arts College, Nandanam said. A senior police officer said that a year ago when some accused were wanted in connection with an offence in Rajamangalam police station limits in Anna Nagar police district, the police had specific information that they were hiding in a government-run hostel at Kolathur. But, the local police encountered problems in conducting a check. To put an end to such problems, the police officer suggested that senior officials of the Social Welfare Department, assisted by the police, make surprise visits to the hostels.
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