India, Feb. 15 -- Kerala health minister Veena George said on Friday that action against five senior nursing students arrested for the brutal ragging of their juniors in Kottayam will not be limited to their suspension, indicating that they were likely to be expelled from the state-run college.

The five students were arrested on Tuesday for allegedly assaulting and ragging a group of first-year students and extorting money from them at the Government Nursing College in Kottayam. The college suspended the accused on Tuesday amid widespread outrage and videos of the incident doing the rounds.

"It's a cruel episode. It shocks the human conscience and words fail to describe the monstrosity of it. After a few seconds of the visuals of the to...