The Supreme Court, in an important decision, clearly stated that Ragging is a crime. The apex court has directed the educational institutions that ragging is an offence so; they can register criminal cases against those students involved in ragging activities.

The SC stated further that FIR should be registered if ragging happens in any institution. The local courts should hear such cases on priority basis. The anti-ragging committee should be set up in all states to restrict the punishable acts.

Earlier, Raghvan Committee had given the guidelines to restrict ragging. The guidelines are likely to be implemented in all educational institutions from this academic year.

The SC bench of Justices Arijit Pasayat and S H Kapadia has given directives to the Central government and State governments to immediately form anti-ragging committees or squads to restrict the nuisance in the name of ragging at the college campuses.

Earlier, the Human Resource Development (HRD) Ministry had set up Raghavan Committee to restrict ragging acts in the educational institutions. The committee has submitted a capacious report and advised to immediately implement the recommendations given by it. The authorities of the educational institutions are also under the stringent action if incidents of ragging reports come from the institution.

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