Adopting a zero-tolerance approach towards ragging, Delhi University has put a strict mechanism in place to make breaking the ice with seniors a smooth affair for the freshers.
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The 'real implementation' of the Supreme Court's order on ragging would help in curbing the menace, father of medical student Aman Kachroo, who was killed after being brutally ragged by his seniors in a college in Himachal Pradesh, said. "It has to be real implementation, real prevention. My agenda at the moment is prevention. I want to make sure that students and administration understand that this crime will not be tolerated any more," Rajendra Kachroo said.
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The accused allegedly forced the victim to consume liquor mixed with some harmful powder following six hours of brutal ragging which included hard physical exercises like push-ups.
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A suicide note purportedly written by Sainath was found from his wallet, which blamed ragging by seniors as the reason for his death, the officer said.
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In her letter, the President has said that repeated incidents of ragging of the past few months in educational institutions indicates that 'the perverse practice of ragging has not only become rampant in our educational institutions but acquired hideous proportions costing the sanity and life of some of the students. What is more worrisome is the persistent spread of this scourge both across a range of educational institutions as also across the country'.
Yesterday, we invited our readers to comment on ragging in colleges and share their experiences. Here are a few interesting -- and shocking -- responses.
The institute authorities had earlier expelled the students from the hostel for ragging first year student Prakash Rajpurohit.
The incident was reported from the hostel of Kirori Mal College on Sunday evening when a first year B.Sc student was ragged allegedly by two third year students Akshay Chaudhary and Hani Mohammad.
Faced with increasing incidents of ragging in campuses, the government is launching a round-the-clock helpline to assist students in lodging complaints about such incidents for prompt action.
The shocked family of the teenaged medical student, who was ragged and beaten to death allegedly by his seniors in a medical college in Himachal Pradesh, on Tuesday said the boy was subjected to immense violence and demanded action against the college where he was studying. Aman Satya Kachru, a first year student of Dr Rajendra Prasad Medical College in Kangra, breathed his last on Sunday night in a hospital after being beaten up allegedly by four seniors.
In a first, three students of Motihari Engineering College at Motihari, Bihar, have been expelled on charges of ragging a junior student, officials said on Wednesday.
The Supreme Court on Wednesday ordered registration of criminal cases against students indulging in ragging activities.
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Kirori Mal College in New Delhi expelled two students on Monday for ragging their juniors.
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The students, undergoing occupational and physiotherapy courses in the KEM hospital in central Mumbai, were arrested on Sunday for allegedly ragging 10 first year students.
"It is a great judgment. But we have to ensure proper implementation of these judgements. You can have hundreds of such judgements. Unless you ensure implementation, it is meaningless," Kachroo said.
The police immediately swung into action and arrested the four students who have since been remanded to judicial custody. They could not arrest the warden, manager and principal, as the police says they are absconding as of Thursday
Sanjay Singh, a student of the Sahara Arts and Management Academy, was allegedly ragged by students from Lucknow University and some other nearby institutions.
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Despite sustained campaigns by the media and government, ragging appears to be going on unbated in India with 88 cases and 12 deaths being reported in the last one year, according to a new study.
The University Grants Commission (UGC) in Delhi reprimanded Jadavpur University for submitting a "generic" report about the incident.
Four years after 19-year-old Aman Kachroo was ragged to death by four senior medical students in Kangra, Himachal Pradesh, his tormentors were released from jail on grounds of "good conduct" on Thursday.
Here is the second part of a series wherein we publish reader stories concerning ragging in colleges.
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This is the second death of a student due to ragging in Andhra Pradesh during last 24 hours. S Harish Kumar, a student of polytechnic college died at his home in Nandyal town of Kurnool district in the state on Friday night, nearly three months after he had attempted suicide by consuming acid over ragging and humiliation by the senior students.
The student of a Gwalior school who allegedly attempted suicide was ragged, the Central Board of Secondary Education has established and will issue a showcause notice to the institute.
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An engineering student of the Jadavpur University has filed a police complaint, alleging he had to leave the university because of severe ragging at the hands of senior students in the hostel where he was staying.
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