KANDY - Ragging freshers of the University of Peradeniya this season is likely to end today 31, University sources said yesterday (30), according to a decision taken by the raggers who are mostly second-year undergraduates.

They have decided to end the course following the traditional friendship meeting scheduled for yesterday (30) afternoon, University sources said.

Ragging that lasted for over three weeks was believed to be the worst, in the history of the Peradeniya campus, according to the spokesman.

According to the spokesman, several new-comers were subjected to severe torture with several students being hospitalised.

Fourteen seniors arrested by the police were remanded while police were in search of some others.

Meanwhile Minister of Education Susil Premjayanth addressing the Pushpadana Balika Vidyalaya annual prize-giving yesterday (30), said that some political entities who could not achieve their policies, were creating disruptions of this nature.

Premjayanth said that those unscrupulous groups had forgotten the situation that occurred in 1988, 1989 and 1990 and said that he appeared in courts of law for those elements regarding their cases.

The Minister further said that poor parents of the new entrants to the university were in tears over the plight of their children.

He said a certain group was all out to create a bad impression for new entrants from the very first day they entered university.