PENALTY FOR RAGGING AS PER THE PREVENTION OF RAGGING
IN EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTES ACT OF AP LEGISLATURE
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Ragging is an act, which is likely to cause insult or annoyance or fear or apprehension or threat or intimidation or outrage of modesty or injury to students. This is a heinous crime, which is uncivilized and demonic. There are instances when some psychologically weak students have committed suicide in engineering colleges because of ragging. Ragging is prohibited within or outside the educational institutions. The salient features of A.P. state legislation and punishments for indulging in ragging are as follows.
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EXTENT OF OFFENCE |
PENALITY |
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Teasing or embarrassing or humiliating a student |
Imprisonment upto 6 months or a fine upto Rs.1,000/- or both |
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Assault or use of criminal force or criminal intimidation |
Imprisonment upto 1 year or a fine upto Rs.2,000/- or both |
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Wrongful restraint or wrongful confinement or causing hurt |
Imprisonment upto 2 years or a fine upto Rs.5,000/- or both |
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Causing grievous hurt or kidnapping or abducting or committing rape or committing unnatural offence. |
Imprisonment upto 5 years or a fine upto Rs.10,000/- or both |
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Causing death or abetting suicide |
Imprisonment for life or for a term upto 10 years with fine up to Rs.50,000/- |
SUSPENSION OR DISMISSAL OF STUDENTS FROM THE COLLEGE
- If a student commits suicide due to or in consequence of ragging, the person who commits such ragging shall be deemed to have abetted such suicide.
- Ragging is a cognizable offence and police can arrest any student indulging in ragging either from institute premises or outside without a formal complaint from anybody.
- The police will observe in mufti (in plain clothes), in the buses, bus stands and campus of educational institute.
SOME ANTI RAGGING MEASURES
- Our staff members are formed into groups to be at various important bus stop locations and they travel in the buses. Any problem can be reported to them. Otherwise, they can also go to the Academic Section in the college and identify the culprit by going through the photographs.
- The teachers and non-teaching staff of the college are formed in to squads to go to important locations in the campus.
- Enquiry committees are immediately formed to give punishment to the culprits.
The students and parents are requested to note the phone numbers of Administration and Heads of various departments which are available on the orientation sheet. For any urgent requirement, they can contact these numbers and if necessary they can contact Police Stations the phone numbers of which are given hereunder:
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Name of the Police Station |
Phone Number |
Name of the Police Station |
Phone Number |
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Ghatkesar |
08415-222233 |
Uppal |
040-2712 3096 |
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Chilukalaguda |
040-2750 2299 |
Kushaiguda |
040-2715 3096 |
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Osmania University |
040-2709 8478 |
Saroornagar |
040-2406 5510 |
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Sultan Bazar |
040-2475 0129 |
Chikkadpally |
040-2763 4491 |
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L B Nagar |
040-2422 3220 |
Kushaiguda |
040-2715 3096 |
