“RAGGING IN ANY FORM INSIDE OR OUTSIDE THE CAMPUS IS BANNED”

Vide Hon’ble Supreme Court of India Orders on SLP (Civil) 24295 and 24296 of 2004- University of Kerala v/s Council, Principals of Colleges, Kerala and others, the senior students who are involved in ragging junior students may be given the following punishment:

FORMS OF RAGGING	PUNISHMENTS
1. To address seniors as ‘Sir’	Cancellation of admission
2. To perform mass drills	Suspension from attending classes.
3. To serve various errands	Withholding/withdrawing scholarship/ fellowship and other benefits.
4. To do menial jobs for the seniors	Debarring from appearing in any test/examination or other evaluation process.
5. To ask/answer vulgar questions	Withholding results.
6. To look at pornographic pictures to ‘Shock’ the freshers out of their innocence.	Debarring from representing the institute in any national or international meet, tournament, youth festival etc.
7. To force to drink alcohol, scalding tea etc.	Suspension/expulsion from the hostel
8. To force to do acts with sexual overtones	Rustication from the institution for period varying from 1 to 4 semesters.
9. To force to do acts which can lead to physical injury/ mental torture or	Expulsion from the institution and debarring death from admission to any other institution.
10. To strip, kill etc.	Fine up to Rs. 25,000/-
11. To do other obscenities	Rigorous imprisonment up to three years.

While the first 10 types of punishments can be awarded by the appropriate authority of the institution itself, the last punishment can be awarded only by a court of law.

In case any fresh student becomes a victim of ragging by his/her senior/s, the incident should immediately be brought to the notice of the Head/Principal.

Information of incident may be reported to the

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