Sri Lanka, Nov. 4 -- A personal dispute arose on the 2nd February between third-year students and senior students of the Faculty of Indigenous Medicine at Gampaha Wickramarachchi University of Indigenous Medicine, prompting the dean of the faculty to issue a statement clarifying that social media videos depicting the incident as ragging are entirely untrue.

The dean emphasized that the video was misconstrued as a ragging incident with the intention of damaging the university's reputation.

He pointed out that the university operated as a ragging-free zone for several years, allowing first and second-year students to engage in their academic studies in a very free environment without any hindrance.

The statement noted that certain groups...