Anti Ragging Rules

Anti-Ragging Policy

Medical council of India vide section 33 of Indian Medical Council act, 1956 has made Prevention and prohibition of Ragging in Medical college/institutions regulations, 2009.

According to this regulation ‘Ragging’ is defined us under.

“Any conduct whether by words spoken or written or by an act which has the effect of harassing, teasing, treating or handling with rudeness any other student, indulging in rowdy or undisciplined activities which causes or is likely to cause annoyance, hardship or psychological harm or to raise fear or apprehension thereof in a fresher or a junior student or asking the students to do any act or perform something which such student will not in the ordinary course and which has the effect of causing or generating a sense of shame or embarrassment so as to adversely affect the physique or psyche of a fresher or a junior student. The conduct includes but is not restricted to 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 students 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 activity or passively participating in the discomfiture to fresher or any other students; 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, linguistic identity, place of birth, place of residence or economic background.”

Punishable ingredients of Ragging:-

• 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 even 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);
• Physical or psychological humiliation.
• All other offences following from the definition of “Ragging”.

If anyone found guilty of directly or indirectly involved or abetting in ragging he/she will be punished /rusticated/expelled/suspended from the institute and also liable to prosecution in terms of the honorable law under the prohibition of Ragging Act 1997. Ragging is now a crime and no one can feign ignorance of the law.

Anti-ragging committee has been constituted in the college and students are advised to report ragging or related activity immediately to any of the member.

12) Institute is also has Prevention of Gender harassment committee which works on the guidelines and norms laid down by the Hon’ble Supreme court in Vishakha and others Vs. State of Rajasthan and others (JT 1997 (7) SC 384) (Vishakha guidelines).