A FACULTY member of Government Medical College in Khammam district, Telangana allegedly took a studenttoa barber shop and got his head tonsured, prompting the Government to orderanenquiry into the incident, officials said on Sunday. Taking a serious view of the incident which happened on November 12, Telangana Health Minister Damodar Raja Narasimha ordered an enquiry over the matter and to initiate action against those responsible. It is not ragging, the officials said.

 

According to state Government officials, initially some seniors in the institute’s hostel told the first-year student that this hairstyle was not proper for a medical college student and asked him to get it trimmed. After the student got his hair trimmed, anassistantprofessor, in-charge medical officer of the anti-ragging committee, who also stays in the hostel, told him “itwaslookingodd”andtookhim to a salon and got his head shaved, the officials said. After the matter came to the notice of the principal,heordered removal of the medical officer from the hostel on Saturday and also set up a committee to enquire into the incident.