In the past the university has been criticized for its high level of ragging with several incidents grabbing national headlines.[45]
These include the death of S. Varapragash in 1997 due to kidney failure
following severe ragging by a group of eight Tamil senior students[46] and the permanent disability of Rupa Rathnaseeli in 1975 as a result of having jumped from the second floor of the hostel Ramanathan Hall to escape the physical ragging being carried out by the seniors. She later committed suicide in 1997[47]
A second incident occurred in 1997. Selvanayagam Varapragash, a
first-year engineering student at University of Peradeniya, was murdered
on the campus due to hazing. He was subjected to sadistic ragging and
in the post-mortem a large quantity of tooth paste was found in his
rectum. This kind of serious ragging does not prevail in the university
anymore. It has reduced to a process of adapting the new students to the
university's unique culture, mostly through harsh speech.
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