AICTE / UGC Regulations as per the Directives of the Supreme Court Ragging constitutes one or more of any of the following acts as per the AICTE / UGC act:

Anti-Ragging Policy

• 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.
• Indulging in rowdyism or undisciplined activities by any student or a student 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.
• 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.
• Any act by a senior student that prevents, disrupts or disturbs the regular academic activity of any other student or a fresher.
• Exploiting the services of a fresher or any other student for completing the academic tasks assigned to an individual or a group of students.
• Any act of financial extortion or forceful expenditure burden put on a fresher or any other student by students.
• 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.
• Any act or abuse by spoken words, emails, posts, 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

Punishments

Depending upon the nature and gravity of the offence as established, the possible punishments as per AICTE / UGC Section 9 for those found guilty of ragging at the institution level, shall be any one or any combination of the following:

• Suspension from attending classes.
• Withholding / withdrawing scholarship/fellowship and other benefits.
• Debarring from appearing in any test/examination or other evaluation process.
• Withholding results.
• Debarring from representing the institution in any regional, national or international meet, tournament, youth festival, etc..
• Suspension / expulsion from the hostel.
• Cancellation of admission.
• Rustication from the institution for period ranging from 1 to 4 semesters.
• Expulsion from the institution and consequent debarring from admission to any other institution.
• Fine ranging between Rs. 25,000/- and Rs. 1, 00,000/-
• Collective punishment: when the persons committing or abetting the crime of ragging are not identified, the institution shall resort to collective punishment as a deterrent to ensure community pressure on the potential ragger

Factors Enlisted by the committee

• Primary responsibility for curbing ragging rests with academic institutions themselves.
• Ragging adversely impacts the standards of higher education.
• Incentives should be available to institutions for curbing the menace and there should be disincentives for failure to do so.
• Enrolment in Academic pursuits or a campus life should not immunize any adult citizen from penal provisions of the laws of the land.
• Ragging needs to be perceived as failure to inculcate human values from the schooling stage.
• Behavioral patterns among students, particularly potential 'raggers', need to be identified.
• Measures against ragging must deter its recurrence.
• Concerted action is required at the level of the school, higher educational institution, district administration, university, State and Central Governments to make any curb effective.
• Media and the Civil Society should be involved in this exercise.