Ragging means display of disorderly conduct, during of any act which causes or is likely to cause physical or psychological harm or raise apprehension or fear or shame or embarrassment to a student in any educational institution and includes –

• Teasing, abusing, threatening or playing practical jokes on or causing hurt to, such student; or
• Asking a student to do any act or perform something which such student will not, in the ordinary course, willingly, do. Prohibition of ragging : R agging within or outside of any educational institution is prohibited. Penalty of ragging: Whoever directly or indirectly commits, participates in, abets or propagates ragging within or outside any educational institution, shall, on conviction, be punished with imprisonment for a term which may extend to two Dismissal of student: Any student convicted of an offence under Section 4 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. Suspension of student: Whenever any student of„ 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 that educational institution shall, without prejudice to the fore going provisions, within seven days of the receipt of the complaint enquire into 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 proved that there is no substance, prima facie, in the complaint received under sub-section [1J, he shall intimate the fact, in writing to the complaint. The decision of the head of the educational institution that the student has indulged in ragging under sub-section (1), shall be final.

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