Northeastern student alleges assault at Pune college

A 17-year-old youth from Arunachal Pradesh, studying at the Government Polytechnic here, was allegedly attacked by four to five persons in the college premises, police said today.
Police has registered a non-cognisable offence against unidentified persons on August 18.
Takam Todo, a diploma student of civil engineering at the insititute, told PTI that the incident took place on the evening of August 14 when he and a couple of friends were chatting near the hostel.
"Some people were sitting nearby, presumably having a liquor party and I accidentally flashed a torch light on them, which irked them. Four to five guys came running at us and threw a stone at my head. I started bleeding. They also beat my friend and the moment we started shouting, they fled," he said.

He and his friends then rushed to the Chaturshringi police station to report the incident.
When asked why the non-cognisable offence was registered only on August 18, senior police inspector Dayanand Dhome said when Todo came to the police station, the duty officer handed him a memo and asked him to go to the Sassoon Hospital and come back with a medical report.
"The complainant thought his complaint had been registered and never came back to register the case. We later registered the case and are trying to find out who were the assailants," Dhome said.