Talking to ENS here today, TIET Director MP Kapoor said that when he visited Ajay Pal Singh, the victim of ragging in Government Rajindra Hospital, where he has been admitted, he confided in him what all the seniors made them say and do.

Ajay Pal Singh, first year Civil Engineering student, had fractured both his legs on October 10 when he, in a state of acute tension after ragging, fell from the second floor of the hostel. He was depressed over the threat of more severe ragging the next day.

Kapoor said that when he visited Ajay, the first thing he asked him was not to take any action against the senior students. It took Kapoor a good amount of reassurance before he was able to make Ajay come out.

All theeight students of TIET who were rusticated late last week have during the course of the preliminary inquiry, admitted to having visited the State College of Education to rag the freshers.

Kapoor said that the rusticated students had since left the hostels and were no longer bona fide students of the institute. These included four students from the Chemical Engineering stream, three from Mechanical and one from Computer Engineering stream.

The TIET director said he had taken the action of rusticating the eight students in the interest of the institute. He said that the faculty members had been busy on October 7 and 8 with alumni function of the institute and that now the faculty had been put in a state of high alert to keep vigil on those trying to rag the juniors students.