Hyderabad, June 18 -- Hyderabad police on Wednesday registered cases against 12 final-year Bachelor of Dental Surgery (BDS) students of Government Dental College, the dental wing of Osmania Medical College (OMC) in Afzalgunj, for allegedly ragging first-year students at a hostel on the OMC campus, officials aware of the matter said on Wednesday.

The accused students have also been suspended from the college for six months, they said.

The students are accommodated in the Osmania Medical College hostel, where the alleged incident took place.

A senior police officer of the Sultan Bazar police station, requesting anonymity, said, "A case has been registered under the Telangana Prohibition of Ragging Act, 1997 based on a complaint filed by ...