It has conducted two successful programs, one each in a Medical College and other at an Engineering college in the city.
DLSA addressed medicos from NKP Salve Institute of Medical Sciences
and Research Centre and Vishwesheriya National Institute of Technology
(VNIT formerly VRCE) for senior students of MBBS and Engineering
respectively on anti-ragging laws recently.
“The senior students should approach their juniors in a friendly
manner and should not involve in ragging activities,” DLSA, Secretary
Kishore Jaiswal, the brain behind the awareness campaign said.
Even forcing a junior student to call seniors as 'Sir' or 'Madam' too comes under the offence of ragging, he said.
Jaiswal, a Civil Judge in Sessions Court here said that the death of a
Medical College student Aman Kachroo from Rajendra Prasad Medical
College in Kangra (HP) after brutal ragging, had shocked the entire
nation in 2009 and since then the Government has initiated strict
measures to curb the ragging tendencies and prosecute the guilty.
The two programs stressed on college authorities being vigilant and strict towards offenders of ragging.
Former Government Pleader advocate P K Sathianathan who is part of
the DLSA team explained various provisions of the Maharashtra
Prohibition of Ragging Act 1999.
He informed that committing ragging is an offence punishable with two years imprisonment and fine upto Rs 10,000.
Jaiswal and Sathianathan said ragging is a damaging form of
interaction of seniors in college or school with juniors, newcomers or
first year students. It is similar to but not same as hazing in the
United States.
“It is not an initiation. It involves insult (simple or suggestive
sexual, sarcastic and even physical), running errands for seniors, and
many other complex activities.”
Highly reputed Indian colleges have a wistful history of ragging
especially Medical colleges. It has become increasingly unpopular due to
several complaints of serious injury to the victims and strict laws
regarding ragging, they said.
Ragging is now defined as an act that violates or is perceived to violate an individual student's dignity.
Following the Supreme Court directive, a National Anti-Ragging helpline was launched by the Government some years back.
The DLSA would be interacting with students of Government Medical College and Hospital next month, Sathianathan added.
Jaiswal said besides anti-ragging laws, the accused students can be
tried under the various sections of IPC for wrongful confinement and
threatening also.
Source: News in Hindi and Newspaper
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