Mount Carmel College traditionally maintains and fosters healthy and friendly relations among students. If any grievance arises from students especially from freshers, regarding the violation of rules in this regard, the anti-ragging cell will take necessary steps.
KERALA RAGGING PROHIBITION ACT 1998 (BY-LAW)
For the information of the students and their parents, the pertinent parts from the Kerala Ragging Prohibition Act published in 1998, forbidding ragging in the educational institutions of Kerala are quoted below.
2 (B) By Ragging, it is meant any physical or mental torture or any disorderly conduct towards any student of an educational institution causing apprehension, dread, humiliation or agitation in him / her.
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- It can be any harassment like insulting, teasing, bullying or manhandling.
- It can also be forcing upon him / her to do something which he/she voluntarily won’t dare to do normally.
- Prohibition of Ragging: Ragging is prohibited both inside and outside an educational institution.
- Punishment for Ragging: Any student involved in ragging/ persuades others for ragging or advocates ragging / either inside or outside an educational institution shall be subject to a punishment of not more than two years imprisonment in addition to a penalty of not over Rs. 10,000.
- Dismissal of a Student: A student subject to the punishment under section (4) is liable to be dismissed from the institution and is barred from being admitted to any other institution for a period of three years from the date of receipt of his / her dismissal order.
- Suspension of a Student: If a student / parent / guardian or any teacher of the institution forwards a written complaint to the head of the institution, he has to make an urgent enquiry into the matter within 7 days of receipt of such a complaint. If the allegation is proved to be correct, the accused must be suspended with immediate effect and the matter must be referred to the police for further proceedings. 2 (1) As is said in sub-section 1, if a written complaint is received by the head of the institution, he has to make a detailed enquiry and if it is found baseless, the complainant must be informed of it in writing.
- Abetting: If the head of the institution refuses to take action in the manner described under section 6 or is negligent in initiating any steps, he is to be treated as one abetting the crime and is liable to be punished under section 4.
WHAT CONSTITUTES RAGGING?
Ragging constitutes one or more of any of the following acts:
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- 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;
- b. indulging in rowdy or indiscipline 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;
- c. 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;
- d. any act by a senior student that prevents, disrupts or disturbs the regular academic activity of any other student or a fresher;
- e. exploiting the services of a fresher or any other student for completing the academic tasks assigned to an individual or a group of students.
- f. any act of financial extortion or forceful expenditure burden put on a fresher or any other student by students;
- g. 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;
- h. 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; any act that affects the mental health and self-confidence of a fresher or any other student with or without an intent to derive a sadistic pleasure or showing off power, authority or superiority by a student over any fresher or any other student.
Anti-Ragging Committee
Ms. Shini George(Convener)
Ms. Rigi M Jacob
Ms. Sofi Nazar
Sub Inspector of Police
Parent Representative
Student Representative
Anti-Ragging Squad
Ms. Shini George(Convener)
Ms. Sofi Nazar
Ms. Rigi M Jacob
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