Click to play videoNew Delhi: Stringent anti-ragging laws are in the offing. A Supreme Court committee is considering laws, which treat ragging as an offense and equate its seriousness with sexual harassment.
The committee says the offence could also invite penal punishment in the future.
In the times to come not only close circuit TV cameras, which would be keeping a close watch on the campus as freshers join in, but the Supreme Court will also keep a watch on the issue of ragging.
The committee headed by former Central Bureau of Investigation director R K Raghvan has started its work to suggest ways to tackle the issue.
“There have been suggestions on anti-ragging laws from the states but they have not been worked upon,” Raghvan says.
One suggestion before the committee is to have a central law on the issue but for that ragging will have to be legally defined and under the Indian Penal Code ragging be treated on par with sexual harassment.
The committee is also considering proposals to have an anti-ragging committee of students in all institutions.
This committee has been constituted in the lines of the Lyngdoh committee formed under the direction of the Supreme Court last year to suggest ways to reform student union elections.
The Raghvan Committee is slated to hold some more public hearings in the days ahead and is likely to give its final report to the Supreme Court in April.
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