Anti-Ragging

What Constitutes Ragging?

• Any conduct by any student or students whether by words spoken or written or by an act which has the effect of teasing, treating or handling with rudeness a fresher or any other student

• Indulging in rowdy or undisciplined activities by any student or students which causes or is likely to cause annoyance, hardship, physical or psychological harm or to raise fear or apprehension thereof in any fresher or any other student

• Asking any student to do any act which such student will not in the ordinary course do and which has the effect of causing or generating a sense of shame, or torment or embarrassment so as to adversely affect the physique or psyche of such fresher or any other student

• Any act by a senior student that prevents, disrupts or disturbs the regular academic activity of any other student or a fresher

• Exploiting the services of a fresher or any other student for completing the academic tasks assigned to an individual or a group of students.

• Any act of financial extortion or forceful expenditure burden put on a fresher or any other student by students

• Any act of physical abuse including all variants of it: sexual abuse, homosexual assaults, stripping, forcing obscene and lewd acts, gestures, causing bodily harm or any other danger to health or person

• Any act or abuse by spoken words, emails, post, public insults which would also include deriving perverted pleasure, vicarious or sadistic thrill from actively or passively participating in the discomfiture to fresher or any other student

• Any act that affects the mental health and self-confidence of a fresher or any other student with or without an intent to derive a sadistic pleasure or showing off power, authority or superiority by a student over any fresher or any other student.

• Any act of physical or mental abuse (including bullying and exclusion) targeted at another student (fresher or otherwise) on the ground of colour, race, religion, caste, ethnicity, gender (including transgender), sexual orientation, appearance, nationality, regional origins

• Abetment to ragging

• Criminal conspiracy to rag

• Unlawful assembly and rioting while ragging

• Public nuisance created during ragging

• Violation of decency and morals through ragging

• Injury to body, causing hurt or grievous hurt

• Wrongful restraint

• Wrongful confinement

• Use of criminal force

• Assault as well as sexual offences or unnatural offences

• Extortion

• Criminal trespass

• Offences against property

• Criminal intimidation

• Attempts to commit any or all of the above mentioned offences against the victim(s)

• Threat to commit any or all of the above mentioned offences against the victim(s)

• Physical or psychological humiliation

• All other offences following from the definition of “Ragging”.