Jamshedpur, June 15: The brother of a girl student, mistaken as her boyfriend, was thrashed on the Mahatma Gandhi Memorial Medical College campus last evening.

Incidentally, the matter reached police, as its principal paid no heed to it despite the final-year girl student lodging a complaint. Deputy superintendent of police (Mango) Shailendra Kumar Sinha claimed the matter was solved.

Premchandra Pandey, an MTech student at BIT, Mesra, had come to see his sister staying at a girls’ hostel near the college. Having stayed there for an hour, he left the hostel about 8.30pm.

No sooner had he crossed the college campus than Pandey was surrounded by four youths. Sources in the college revealed that those who blocked Pandey’s path thrashed him by dragging him inside the campus. The assailants had bolted the college gate before attacking the youth. The commotion led girl students, including his sister, rushing to the spot.

Seeing her brother, the girl asked the boys why they were beating him. However, her protest was too weak to save Pandey from being hit by the MBBS students. One Ranjit Murmu kept on beating him until Pandey fell on the road bruising his head.

Pandey was later rescued and taken to the medical college hospital where doctors on emergency duty carried out a CT scan as he had sustained head injuries.

Soon after the word spread that Pandey had been hospitalised, the four students came to emergency ward and asked the doctor there to admit them as well, as if to prove that Pandey had come to assault them on the campus.

However, none of them was admitted, as the doctor on duty refused to do so for they had not been not at all assaulted.

While the girl approached principal A.N. Mishra and apprised him of the incident, he put down the incident. As a result, the girl went over to MGM police station and lodged a complaint against Ranjit Murmu, Avinash Jha, Mohan Kant Thakur and Sanjay Mahto — all final-year students.

“I lodged a complaint with the police as I wanted justice. The four students beat up my brother without any reason,” she said.

The girl told The Telegraph that it was very bitter experience to see her brother being suspected to be a lover and assaulted.

“I could never think anything as such would happen with me or with my relatives and that too on the college premises. I am here for the past several years but never came across such a situation,” she said.

Mishra later claimed that he did not know anything about the incident.

“The college warden should have been informed immediately after the incident, but she informed the police instead,” he said.

He, however, said this to be an unfortunate thing to happen like this on the college campus.

“The issue is settled now. I have decided to issue strict order for the boys as well as the girl students in the college in order to maintain discipline on the college campus,” said the principal.

Chaos on the medical college campus returned after about two years. In 2006, the students of the college assaulted and harassed members of a picnic party from Bengal. The matter was later reported to police.