Ragging is strictly prohibited in the college premises. If anybody found indulged in such kind of activities, strict action will be taken irrespective of the extent. Supreme Court of India has banned ragging.
What is Ragging? "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 indisciplined 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." Punishments for Ragging: This is to bring to your notice all provisions of the IPC (Indian Penal Code) which can be used by anyone who is being ragged to register an FIR (First Information Report) in the police station under whose jurisdiction area the crime has taken place. These sections are: 339. Wrongful restraint 340. Wrongful confinement 341. Punishment for wrongful restraint 342. Punishment for wrongful confinement 294. Obscene acts and songs 506. Punishment for criminal intimidation In cases of extreme ragging that includes violence: 323. Punishment for voluntarily causing hurt 324. Voluntarily causing hurt by dangerous weapons or means 325. Punishment for voluntarily causing grievous hurt 326. Voluntarily causing grievous hurt by dangerous weapons or means In case a ragging victim has lost his/her life: 304. Punishment for culpable homicide not amounting to murder 306. Abetment of suicide 307. Attempt to murder