Dr SN Medical College in Jodhpur has suspended 19 medicos, including a junior resident, following an inquiry into allegations of ragging and misconduct against junior MBBS students, Medical Dialogues reported on Wednesday, November 4. Five of those suspended, including the junior resident, have been suspended for three months, while the remaining 14 students have been suspended for one month.

Source: Medical Dialogues

Junior MBBS students of the 2026 batch had jointly submitted a complaint to the National Medical Commission (NMC), alleging ragging, mental harassment and being forced to address senior students as 'Boss'. The students alleged that seniors used inappropriate language with them under the pretext of introductions. The NMC forwarded the complaint to the college administration and directed it to conduct an immediate investigation, after which principal Dr BS Jodha referred the matter to the college's Anti-Ragging Committee.

During the suspension period, those penalised will be barred from clinical postings, academic activities and educational programmes, and will also be prohibited from entering college hostels, libraries and reading rooms. According to an IANS account cited in the report, the dispute reportedly erupted during a 'Clean Campus Drive' organised on the college premises on October 28, when juniors alleged that seniors from the 2025 batch forced them to remain clean-shaven, maintain specified hairstyles, stand for extended periods and wear formal clothes. The allegations are as stated by the complainants; the committee's inquiry preceded the suspensions.

Part of a statewide pattern of complaints

The Jodhpur action is a separate development from the fresh ragging complaint at Pandit Deendayal Upadhyaya Medical College in Churu, reported earlier this week, in which the NMC sought an urgent action-taken report from that institution. Doctors' bodies say 13 complaints of alleged ragging have been reported from medical colleges across Rajasthan since early October, but action has so far been initiated in only two institutions — Barmer Government Medical College, where 79 students faced disciplinary action including hostel expulsion, according to The Times of India, and now Dr SN Medical College, Jodhpur.

Source: The Times of India, Jaipur

The United Doctors Front has written to the Rajasthan chief minister, the Commissioner of the Directorate of Medical Education and the state police chief pointing to ragging reports from 12 medical colleges in October, and has sought an independent statewide investigation, institutional accountability and a coordinated anti-ragging monitoring mechanism.