About Anti-Ragging

Anti-Ragging Measures – AIIMS Bilaspur (HP)

What Constitutes Ragging?

Ragging refers to any of the following act/s:

1. Any conduct by any student or students whether by words spoken or written or by an act which has the effect of harassing, teasing, treating or handling with rudeness a fresher or any other student.
2. 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.
3. 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, torment or embarrassment so as to adversely affect the physique or psyche of such fresher or any other student.
4. Any act by a senior student that prevents, disrupts or disturbs the regular academic activity of any other student or a fresher.
5. Exploiting the services of a fresher or any other student for completing the academic tasks assigned to an individual or a group of students.
6. Any act of financial extortion or forceful expenditure burden put on a fresher or any other student by students.
7. Any act of physical abuse including all variants of it: sexual abuse, stripping, forcing obscene and lewd acts, gestures, causing bodily harm or any other danger to health or person.
8. Any act or abuse by spoken words, emails, posts, or public insults including deriving perverted pleasure, vicarious or sadistic thrill from actively or passively participating in the discomfiture to fresher or any other student.
9. Any act that affects the mental health and self-confidence of a fresher or any other student with or without intent to derive sadistic pleasure or showing off power, authority or superiority.

The following acts will also be considered as Ragging:

1. Abetment to ragging
2. Criminal conspiracy to rag
3. Unlawful assembly with intent to rag
4. Public nuisance created during ragging
5. Violation of decency and morals through ragging
6. Injury to body, causing hurt or grievous hurt
7. Wrongful restraint
8. Wrongful confinement
9. Use of criminal force
10. Assault as well as sexual offences or even unnatural offences
11. Extortion
12. Criminal trespass
13. Offences against property
14. Criminal intimidation
15. Attempts to commit any of the above-mentioned offences
16. Threat to commit any of the above-mentioned offences
17. Physical or psychological humiliation
18. All other offences following from the definition of “Ragging”

Ragging in all its forms is totally banned in the entire AIIMS Bilaspur campus. The institution shall take strict action against those found guilty of ragging and/or abetting ragging.

Freshers should desist from doing anything against their will even if ordered by seniors. The institution ensures protection and will not tolerate any atrocities against freshers.

As ragging mostly occurs in hostels, mess areas and common student spaces, round-the-clock vigil is maintained in hostel premises. Staff and security personnel are instructed to keep strict vigilance and report any incident immediately.

Freshers who do not report incidents of ragging, either as victims or as witnesses, shall be equally culpable. 

Possible Punishments (as per Anti-Ragging Committee):

1. Suspension from attending classes and academic privileges
2. Withholding/withdrawing scholarship, fellowship and other benefits
3. Debarring from appearing in any test, examination or evaluation process
4. Withholding of results
5. Debarring from representing the institution in any regional, national or international events
6. Suspension or expulsion from the hostel
7. Cancellation of admission
8. Rustication from the institution for a period ranging from 1 to 4 semesters
9. Expulsion from the institution and debarring from admission to any other institution for a specified period