lt has been rightly said that the end may not always justify the means. Behind the facade of 'welcoming' new students to college, ragging, in actuality is a notorious practice wherein the senior students get an excuse to harass their junior counterparts, and more often than not, make them easy targets to satiate their own perverse sadistic pleasures. Apart from sustaining grievous physical injuries, those unfortunate students who succumb to ragging either develop a fear psychosis that haunts them throughout their lives, or worse, quit their college education even before it begins. For any student who slogs day and night to secure admission into a prestigious college, ragging can be his or her worst nightmare come true. lt would not be an exaggeration to say that, today, ragging has taken the shape of a serious human rights violation with even the most respected and Disciplined educational institutes falling prey to it.

The Hon'ble Supreme Court of India has given a more comprehensive meaning of ragging as under ;

“Ragging is any disorderly conduct, whether by words spoken or written, or by an act which has the effect of teasing, treating or handling with rudeness any student, indulging in rowdy or indiscipline activities which cause or are likely to cause annoyance, hardship or psychological harm or to raise fear or apprehension thereof in a fresher or a junior student and which has the effect of causing or generating a sense of shame or embarrassment so as to adversely affect the psyche of a fresher or a junior student."

Ragging in any form is strictly prohibited in accordance and as per the directions of the Hon'ble Supreme Court of India. STUDENTS FOUND IN ANY KIND OF RAGGING SHALL BE RUSTICATED OUTRIGHT FROM THE INSTITUTE. AND LEGAL ACTION AS PRESCRIBED MAY BE INITIATED.