6. Legal perspective of ragging
• Honorable Supreme court of India defines
ragging as under-
– “Ragging is any disorderly conduct, whether by words
spoken or written, or by an act which has the effect of
teasing, treating or handling with rudeness any student,
indulging in rowdy or undisciplined activities which
cause or are likely to cause annoyance, hardship or
psychological harm or to raise fear or apprehension
thereof in a fresher or a junior student and which has
the effect of causing or generating a sense of shame or
embarrassment so as to adversely affect the psyche of a
fresher or a junior student”
7. Central Government Through Cabinet
Secretary, 2001
The Supreme Court laid down the following guidelines:-
Anti- ragging movement to be initiated by all colleges and
educational institution.
Undertaking to be taken both from the freshmen and their
parent.
Undertaking to be taken from the senior student and their
parents/ guardians.
Notice to be issued indicating where to approach for
redressal in case of ragging.
8. Raghavan Committee
Supreme Court had order the HRD ministry to appoint
the committee.
Raghavan is ex- CBI chief ,he submitted the report in
2007.
Ragging as an act of human right abuse.
Requirement of ragging awareness not only to fresher's,
but all stakeholders i.e. seniors, fresher's, teachers and the
civic society at large.
Need for strong and uniform ragging law
9. Identity of the informants of ragging incidents to be fully
protected.
College administration must file the FIR within 24 hours
of the receipt of such information with the police and
local authorities, under appropriate provisions namely:-
Abetment of ragging
Criminal conspiracy to rag
Unlawful assembly and rioting while ragging
Public nuisance created during ragging
Injury to body, causing hurt or grievous hurt
10.
Wrongful confinement
Wrongful restraint
Use of criminal force
Sexual offence or unnatural offence
Extortion
Criminal trespass
Offence against property
Physical or physiological humiliation
13.
Punishments :-
Suspension from attending classes and academic privileges
Withdrawing the scholarship, fellowship and other
benefits
Debarring from appearing in any examination
Withholding the result
Debarring
regional,
from representing the
National or International
institution in any
Meet, Tournament,
Youth Festival etc.
14.
Suspension /expulsion from the hostel
Cancellation of the admission
Expulsion from the institution and consequent debarring
from admission to any other institution for specified
period.
An appeal against the order of punishment by the anti-
ragging committee shall lie to the vice chancellor of the
university.
In case of an order of a university ,to its chancellor
15. Ragging is a problem of the student and by the student
and therefore the solution to it also lies with the
student.
Th e student’s community must awaken its conscience
to this inhuman practice before more and more
innocent students become victims of ragging
