A Bihar minister's son was allegedly ragged at the Scindia School in Gwalior.
Bihar Chief Minister Jitan Ram Manjhi today talked to his Madhya Pradesh counterpart Shivraj Singh Chouhan on the alleged case of ragging of state Cooperative Minister Jai Kumar Singh's 14-year-old son at the famous Scindia School in Gwalior.
Mr Manjhi urged Mr Chouhan to get the incident probed and punish the culprits, officials in the chief minister's office said.
The teenager, who was moved to a Delhi hospital on Thursday, continues to fight for his life. A statement issued by the hospital this morning said that his condition is critical and he continues to be on ventilator support in the ICU.
The minister has told news agency Press Trust of India that school officials claimed his son had tried to kill himself.
"But, I strongly dispute this," he was quoted as saying. "Even doctors attending on him at Apollo hospital said it does not seems a case of suicide but that of a case of him being throttled," he alleged.
The boy had also "complained to his mother in the past about harassment from seniors. But, we never thought the matter was so serious," the minister told PTI.