ANTI RAGGING ACT OF GOVT. OF TAMIL NADU

What Constitutes Ragging?

Ragging constitutes one or more of any of the following acts

• Any conduct by any student or students whether by words spoken or written or by an act which has the effect of teasing, treating or handling with rudeness a fresher or other student.
• Indulging in rowdy or indiscipline activities by any student or students which causes or is likely to cause annoyance, hardship, physical or psychological harm or to raise fear or apprehension thereof in any fresher or any other student.
• Asking any student to do any act which such student will not in the ordinary course do and which has the effect of causing or generating a sense of shame, or torment or embarrassment so as to adversely affect the physique or psyche of such fresher or any other student.
• 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 student 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, gesture, 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 actively or passively participating in the discomfiture to fresher or any other student.
• 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.

RAGGING PUNISHMENTS

Ragging is totally prohibited in the institution, and anyone found guilty of ragging and/or abetting ragging, whether actively or passively, or being a part of a conspiracy to promote ragging, is liable to be punished. The institution may, depending on the nature and gravity of the guilt established by the Anti-Ragging Squad, award, to those found guilty, one or more of the following punishments, namely:

• Suspension from attending classes and academic privileges.
• Withholding / withdrawing scholarship/fellowship and other benefit.
• Debarring from appearing in any test / examination or other evaluation process. Withholding results.
• Debarring from representing the institution in any regional, national or international meet, tournament, youth festival, etc .
• Suspension / expulsion from the hostel.
• Cancellation of admission.
• Suspension from the institution for period ranging from one to four semesters.
• Expulsion from the institution and consequent debarring from admission to any other institution for a specified period.

Dismissal of Student

Any student convicted of an offence under section 4 shall also be dismissed from the educational institution and such student shall not be admitted in any other educational institution.

Suspension of Student

Without prejudice to the foregoing provisions, whenever any student complains of ragging to the Head of an educational institution, or any other person responsible for management of the educational institution, such Head of the educational institution or person responsible for the management of the educational institution shall inquire into the same immediately and if found true, shall suspend the student, who committed the offence, from the educational institution. The decision of the Head of the educational institution or the person responsible for the management of the educational institution that any student has indulged in ragging under subsection (1) shall be final.