Visakhapatnam/Bhubaneswar: The death of first-year intermediate student Shreyash Kesharwani of Sri Chaitanya Junior College took a new turn with Odisha police deciding to transfer the case to PM Palem Police station in Vizag city to look at a ragging angle.

Shreyash (16), of Garposh area of Sambalpur district in Odisha, was a student of the Madhurawada branch of the college in Vizag.





He was allegedly subjected to ragging in the private college hostel on December 26 and died on January 6 evening while undergoing treatment at a hospital in Rourkela.

Shreyas was said to be beaten up by three to four senior students in the boys hostel where he was put up on December 26. The boy had claimed he informed the college authorities about the incident but no action was taken.

His father moved him to Rourkela for treatment. Shreyas’s family even recorded his statement before his death on video, in which he said that he was tortured and ragged by some senior students and the management had ignored his complaint against them.