What is Ragging?

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.

Ragging includes any act by a senior student that disrupts academic activities, financial extortion, physical or mental abuse, sexual harassment, public insults, cyber abuse, or any act affecting the dignity, confidence, or mental health of a fresher or junior student.

Punishable ingredients of Ragging:

1. Abetment to ragging
2. Criminal conspiracy
3. Unlawful assembly and rioting
4. Creation of public nuisance
5. Violation of decency and morals
6. Injury causing hurt or grievous hurt
7. Wrongful restraint or confinement
8. Use of criminal force
9. Sexual offences or assaults
10. Extortion
11. Visiting a place with wrongful intent
12. Offences against property
13. Inciting others to commit crimes
14. Attempts to commit offences
15. Physical or psychological humiliation
16. Any offence arising from ragging