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Time of India
3 days ago
- Politics
- Time of India
Ragging rules ready for roll-out
T'puram: When new laws are cleared in the assembly, departments usually take months, sometimes years, to frame the fine print rules that make them work. The home department has chosen to invert that script. Even before the Kerala Prohibition of Ragging (Amendment) Bill, 2025 reaches the floor of the House, a detailed set of Kerala Prohibition of Ragging Rules, 2025 has been prepared, all but guaranteeing that the moment the bill is voted through, the regime will switch on without a pause. The draft rules run to 11 sections and leave little to guesswork. They start by welding the proposed state law to the country's new criminal code. "The criminal offences mentioned under Section 2(b)(iii) of the Act are having the same meaning as defined under the Bharatiya Nyaya Samhita 2023," the preamble declares, before roping in the NDPS Act, the IT Act, and Pocso for good measure. Punishments, it promises, will be imposed "by adopting the procedures enshrined in Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023 and Bharatiya Sakshya Adhiniyam, 2023. " In other words, ragging probes will move under the same evidentiary and procedural yardsticks as any serious criminal investigation. Unlike the broader amendment act, which sets out new offences and higher penalties, the rules drill into daily campus life. Every college and school must convene an anti-ragging committee headed by the principal but the rules go further from day one of an academic year, the principal "shall obtain an affidavit from the students and parents to the effect that the student… would not indulge in the act or abet the act of ragging," and must convene a strategy meeting of wardens, parents, police, and district officials to map trouble spots. Notice board posters warning of penalties are mandatory, and heads of institutions are told to give adequate publicity to the law prohibiting ragging. The anti ragging squad a body composed only of insiders with no outside representation is instructed "to make surprise raids, checks on hostels, and other places vulnerable to incidents of ragging." If an incident is reported, the squad must hold an on-the-spot inquiry, allow both sides to present evidence based on the principles of natural justice, and hand its findings to the committee that will decide punishments. In a nod to collective responsibility, the draft warns that when culprits cannot be pinpointed "the institution shall resort to collective punishment." Teachers are not the only adults conscripted. Each campus must run a mentoring cell; the rules specify the curious ratio of one mentor for every six freshers and one senior mentor for every six junior mentors, with faculty expected to keep the pyramid intact. At the top of the new enforcement pyramid sits a state level monitoring cell, backed by a state nodal officer with authority to receive "distress messages" in real time. The cell can recommend that govt funds or scholarships be withheld from institutions that drag their feet. Where a college beyond Plus Two level still fails to act, Regulation 9.2 of the UGC anti-ragging code will kick in another signal that state and central frameworks have been stitched together to avoid jurisdictional cracks. A hostel-level punishment can be challenged before the district educational officer, whose own orders rise to the deputy director of education, and so on up to the director general of education. Higher education institutions must follow the UGC's own appellate route, ensuring parity with national rules. Crucially, the document stakes a claim to immediate viability. Because the procedural nuts and bolts are already in place, officials say the moment the assembly passes the amendment bill, colleges cannot plead lack of clarity.
The Hindu
10-07-2025
- The Hindu
Eight booked after youth is found dead in Wadagera
The Wadagera Police have registered a case against eight people, including a woman, after a complaint was lodged on Wednesday following a youth was found dead. An FIR, quoting the contents of the complaint, said that 40-year-old Marimbi Syed Ali Mulla, mother of 22-year-old Mahboob Syed Ali Mulla, lodged the complaint saying that her son (Mahboob) ended his life hanging himself from a tree in Wadagera after he was assaulted by the accused. Earlier, the accused gave him a threat that he would be sent to jail in an atrocity case, following a quarrel over a path leading to their agricultural field. She stated that apparently offended by the life threat and also a likely atrocity case after the assault, her son ended his life by hanging from a tree. She has sought justice through legal action against all the accused. The FIR has named the accused as Eshappa Shivajappa Kajji, a native of Naikal, Yankappa Hanumanth Kydigeri, Bheemappa Mareppa Jangin, Ningappa Bheemappa Pujari, Bheemappa Ningappa Pujari, Sabareddy Ningappa Pujari, Honappa Ningappa Pujari, Maremma Ningappa Pujari, all residents of Wadagera. A case under Sections 189(2), 191(2), 329(3), 329(4), 115(2), 352(2), 351 and 108 r/w 190 of Bharatiya Nyaya Samhita 2023 has been registered and investigation is under way. (Those in distress or having suicidal tendencies can call Arogya Sahayavani on Ph: 104 for help.)
The Hindu
07-07-2025
- The Hindu
Police raid Raichur hotel, arrest four, rescue six women
Following a tip-off, the Raichur Rural Police carried out a raid on a hotel on the Raichur-Hyderabad Road, arrested four accused and rescued six women from the accused. According to Superintendent of Police G. Puattamadaiah, the raid was carried out on July 1 to rescue the women who had been brought from various parts of Andhra Pradesh and Telangana for prostitution. They were lured with a large sum of money, he added. The Superintendent of Police gave the names of the accused as 58-year-old Shankar of Raichur, 30-year-old Mallesh of Ganamur, 27-year-old Shivakumar of Muchhalagudda Camp in Sirwar and 22-year-old Durugesh of Baidoddi in Raichur taluk. A case has been registered under Sections 3, 4, and 5(1a) of the Immoral Trafficking (Prevention) Act 1956 and Sections 143 (1) and (2) of the Bharatiya Nyaya Samhita 2023. A team of Inspector Sabayya, Sub-Inspector Prakash Reddy Dambal, Head Constables Bhaskar, Mehboob, Shantakumar, Amarnath, Constables Shashikala, Shantamma, Suresh, Gopalreddy and Raghav Reddy carried out the raid on the direction of Deputy Superintendent of Police Shantaveera.
