Ragging within or outside of any educational institution is prohibited.
Whosoever directly or indirectly commits, participates in, abets, or propagates ragging within or outside any educational institution shall, on conviction, be punished with imprisonment for a term up to 2 years and / or penalty, which may extend to ten thousand rupees.
Any student convicted of an offence of ragging shall be dismissed from the educational institution and such student shall not be admitted in any other educational institution for a period office years from the date of order of such dismissal.
Ragging is Prohibited as per the decision of the Supreme Court of India in Writ Petition No. (C) 656/1998. AICTE has framed regulation which has been notified vide F.No.37-3/Legal/AICTE/2009 dated July 1, 2009 (available on AICTE web portal at aicte-india.org) Grievance> Anti-Ragging) on curbing the menace of ragging.