Anti-Ragging
TAMILNADU GOVERNMENT GAZETTE
EXTRAORDINARY
The following act of the Tamil Nadu Legislative Assembly received the assent of the Governor on the 14th February 1997 and is hereby published for general information.
EXCERPTS FROM ACT No.7 OF 1997
An Act prohibit ragging in educational institutions in the State of Tamil Nadu. Be It enacted by the Legislative Assembly of the State of Tamil Nadu in the Forty Eighth year of Republic India as follows:
SHORT TITLE , EXTENDED COMMENCEMENT:
- This Act may be called the Tamil Nadu Prohibition of Ragging Act, 1997.
- It extends to the whole of the State of Tamil Nadu.
- It shall be deemed to have come into force on the 19th day of December 1996.
DEFINITION:
2.In this Act unless the context otherwise requires, “ragging” means display of noisy, disorderly conduct doing any act which causes or is likely to cause physical or psychological harm or raise apprehension or fear or shame or embarrassment to the student in any educational instituition and includes:
- Teasing ,abusing, of playing practical jokes on , or causing hurt to such students or
- Asking the students to do any act or perform something which such students will not in the ordinary course willingly do.
PROHIBITION OF RAGGING:
3.Ragging within or without any educational institution is prohibited.
PENALTY OF RAGGING:
4.Whoever directly or indirectly commits, participates in, abets or propogates “ragging” within or without any educational institutions, shall be punished with imprisonment for a team which may extend to two years and shall also be liable to a fine which may extend to ten thousand rupees.
DISMISSAL OF STUDENTS:
5.Any students convicted of an offence under section 4 shall be dismissed from the educational institution and such students shall not be permitted in any other educational institutions.
SUSPENSION OF STUDENTS:
6.Without prejudice to the foregoing provisions, whenever any students complains of ragging to the Head of an Educational Institutions, or to any other person responsible for the management of the educational institutions he/she shall inquire into the same immediately and if found true suspend the students, who has committed the office, 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 sub-section (1) shall be final.
DEEMED ABETMENT
7.If the head of the educational institution or the person responsible for the management of the educational institution fails or neglects to take action in the manner specified in subsection (1) of section 6 when a complaint or ragging is made, such person shall be deemed to have abetted the offence of ragging and shall be punished as provided for in section 4.