Fifteen Peradeniya University students arrested for ragging

Fifteen second-year students attached to the Agriculture Faculty of the Peradeniya University were arrested for ragging, earlier today (20).

Peradeniya Police said the fifteen second-year students had taken a group of first year students to a house in Megodakalugamuwa to be ragged.

Eight first-year students were hospitalised as a result of the ragging.

The fifteen students were ordered to be remanded till March 2 by the Kandy Magistrate Court today.