dehradun another incident of ragging at the government medical college in haldwani has come to the fore in a span of almost a month the college administration received an audio recording of four postgraduate pg students allegedly using swear words while reprimanding juniors for their negligence in taking care of the patients last month after a complaint of ragging a secondyear mbbs student of the college had been fined rs 50000 and expelled from the hostel for three months while 42 others of the same batch had been asked to pay rs 25000 fine eachafter the latest incident came to light principal of the college arun joshi called a meeting of the antiragging committee on saturday professor joshi told toi that they received a complaint against four pg students of the surgery department and the matter is under investigationhe added that a complaint was lodged on the university grants commission ugc portal against the students of the four accused pg students two are in the second year while two are in the third year an audio clip was uploaded on the antiragging portal of the ugc which was sent to us a meeting of the antiragging committee has been convened to investigate the matter the committee consists of 10 people including the principal dean superintendent of police city magistrate and a representative from an ngo among others joshi saidhe added we heard the audio clip in which some profanity was used by the senior students though all the junior students have denied ragging action will be taken against the accused students the accused will be punished with a fine of rs 25000 each with a strict warning the professor said there are a total of nine students in the master of surgery course at the college one of them is on maternity leave ragging in the medical college had gained widespread attention when a video had gone viral in march last year which showed firstyear students with their hands behind their back looking down on the ground while walking in silence