Seven engineering students, studying in aprivate college here, have been arrested for murdering one of their junior andseverely injuring his friend in a suspected case of ragging, police said.
All those arrested are from Kerala and into their third yearof college.
Police said the students of Gnanamani Engineering College hadyesterday asked their juniors to fetch them drinking water from a tank whichthey refused, following which they were threatened with dire consequences.
After college hours, the duo left for home on a motorbike.As the two students neared a junction, they were intercepted by the sevenstudents in a car and attacked with iron rods. One of the junior students diedon the spot and the other suffered head injuries, police said.
The students sped away in the car, but localpeople alerted the police, who nabbed them at nearby Omalur. All of them werebooked under IPC Section 147 (punishment for rioting) 148 (rioting armed withdeadly weapon), 302 (punishment for murder) and 307 (attempt to murder).