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Anti Ragging

• Ragging within or outside of any educational institution is prohibited.
• Whosoever directly or indirectly commits, participated in, abets, or propagates ragging, within or outside any educational institution shall, on conviction, be punished with imprisonment for a term up to two years and / or penalty, which may extend to ten thousand rupees.
• Any students convicted of an offence of ragging shall be dismissed from the Educational Institution and such student shall not be admitted in any other Educational Institution for a period of five years from the date of order of such dismissal.
• Whenever any student or, as the case may be, the parent or guardian or a teacher of an Educational Institution, complaints, in writing of ragging to the Head of the Educational Institution, the Head of the Educational Institution shall, without prejudice to the foregoing provisions, within seven days of the receipt of the complaint, enquire in to the matter mentioned in the complaint and if, prima facie, it is found true, suspend the student who is accused of the offence, and shall, immediately forward the complaint to the Police Station having jurisdiction over the area in which the Educational Institution is situated, for further action.
• Where, on enquiry by the Head of the Educational Institution it is found that there is no substance, prima facie, in the complaint received, he / she shall intimate the fact, in writing, to the complainant.
• The decision of the Head of the Educational Institution shall be final.