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Anti
Ragging Act
THE
ANDHRA PRADESH GAZETTE
PART
– IV. B EXTRAORDINARY
PUBLISHED
BY AUTHORITY
No.
36] Hyderabad , Thursday, RDGUST 21, 1997.
ANDHRRA
PRADESH ACTS, ORDINANCES AKID REGULATIONS Etc.
The following act of the Andhra prradesh leagislative assembly received
the asssent of the Gvoernor on the 19th August, 1997 and the said
assent is hereby first. Published on the 21at August, 1997 in the Andhrra
pradesh Gazette for general information.
ACT
NO. 26 OF 1997
AN
ACT TO PROHIBIT RAGGING IN EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTIONS IN THE STATE OF
ANDHRAPRADESH.
Be it enacted by the legislative Assembly of the State of Andhra
Pradesh in the Forty-eighth year of the Republic of india, as follows:-
1.(1) This Act may be called the Andhra pradesh prohibition of Ragging
Act, 1997.
2.ANDHRAPRADESH GAZETTE EXTRAORDINARY (Part IV-B)
(2) It extends to the whole of the state of Andhra pradesh
(3) It shall be deemed to have come into force with effect from 4th
july
Definitions.2. Inthis act, unless the context otherwise requires,
(a)‘act’
includes words either spoken or written or signs or sounds or gestures or
visible or visible representatins;
(b)Educatinal
institution means and includes a college, or other instituion by whatever name
called, carrying on the activity 0r imparting educatin there in (either
exclusivelyu or among other activities ); and includes an orphanage or
bnoarding home or hiostel or atutorial institution or any other premises
attached thereto.
(c)Government
means the state Governement of Andhra pradesh
(d)Notification
means the notificatin published inb the Andhra pradesh Gazette and th4 Word
notified shall be construed accordingly;
(e)Ragging
means doing an act which ehich causes or is likely to cause insult or
annoyance of fear or apprehension or threat or intimidateion or outrage or
modesty or injury ot a student
(f)student
means.person who is admitted to
an educaional instituion.
And
whose name is lawfully borne on the attendance register thereof;
(g)All
words and expressions used but not defined in this Act shall have the meanings
asigned to them undwer the Andhra pradesh Education Act, 1982 or Indian penal
code, 1660 respectively.
3.Ragging within or outside any educational instituion is prohibited.
4.Whoever, with the intentionof causing ragging or with th4 knowledge
that he is likely by such act to cause ragging, commits or abets ragging and
thereby.
i)teases
or embarrasses or humiliates a student shall b e punished with impri sonment
for a term which may extend to six months or with fine which may extend to oe
tnousand rupees or with both; or
i)assaults or uses criminal force ot or criminally
intimidates, student shall be punished with improsonment ofor a term which
mayu etern ot one year tr with fine which may extend to two thousand rupees or
with both; or
ii)Wrong fully restrains, or wrong fullyconfine or. Causes hurt top a a student shall be punished with
imprisonment for a term which may extend to two years or with fine which may
extend to five thosand rupees or with both;or
iii)Causes grievourshurt to or kidnaps or abducts or rapes or
commits unnatural offend with a student shall be punished with imprisonment
for a term which may extend to five yers and with five which may extend to ten
thousand rupees; or
iv)Causes death or abets suicide shall be punished with
imprisonment for lifeor with
imprisonment for a term which may extend to ten yers and with a fine which may
extend to fifty thousand rupees.
5.Dismissl
of student,(1) A. Sudent convicted of an offencd under section 4 and punished
with imprisonment for a term shall be dismissd from the edcaitonal instituion
(2)
A student convicted of an offence under seiton 4 and punished with
iniprisonement for a term of more than six months shall not be admittd inn
nayother educainal instituion.
6.(1)
Suspension of student, without to the fore going provisions, whenever any
student complains of ragging to the hed or manager of an educational
institution, such head or manager shall inquire into or cause an inquiry into
or cause ann inquiry to be made into the same forthwith and if the. Complain s
primafcie found tru, shall suspend the student or students complained against
for such period as may be deemed necessary.
(2) The decision of the head or manager or the educational institution
institution under sub section (1) shall be final.
Abetnient.7. (1) If the head or the manager of an educaiona institution fails or
neglects to take acion in the manner specified in sub-section (1) of secion 6,
such person shall be deemed to have abetted the offence and shall be punished
with the punishement provided for the offence.
1)If a student commits suicide due to or in consequence of
regging, the peroson who comits such ragging shall be deemed to have abtted
such suicide.
Other
laws not affefcted
8.The
provisions of this act shall be in additon to and not derogratory of any lw
for the time being in force.
Power
to make rules.
1.(1) The Government may notification, make rules or
carrying out all or any opf the purposes of this act.
(2)
Every rule made under this Act shall immediately after is is made,l be laid
before tha legislativee assembly of the State, if it is in session and if it
is not in session, in the session immdediately following for a total period of
four teen days which may be comprised in one sesion or two sucessive sesions,
and if, before, the expiration of the session imme diately following the
Legislative asembly agrees in making any modification in the rule or in th
annulmenbt of the , rule , the rule shall, from the date on ewhich the
modificaion or annulment is notified, have efect only in such modified form or
shall stan annulled as the case may be so, however, that any such modificaion
or annulment shallbe without prejudice to the validity of any thing previously
done udeer that rule.
Repeal
of ordinance 12 to 1997
2.theAndhra
pradesh prohibition of Ragging Ordinance, 1997 is here repeled.
