Ragging constitutes one or more of any of the following acts:
a) 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 any other
student.
Indulging in rowdy or undisciplined 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, gestures, 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.
Ragging is a criminal offence and is strictly prohibited. Students are requested to refrain
from indulging in ragging in any form whatsoever.
Those indulging in Ragging will be dealt with severely as per the provisions of the
Maharashtra
Prohibition of Ragging Act, 1999
The Anti-Ragging Committee will take appropriate action as per legal procedure after verifying
the facts, nature and gravity of the same.
