Ragging cases in 2009-10: The crackdown has begun

IN 2009-10, educational institutions have started a crackdown on ragging that is unprecedented. Many cases of police complaints have come to light. 28 July 2009: 19 girl students fine for ragging freshers at the Indian Institute of Information Technology, Allahabad, Uttar Pradesh. Link 29 July: Law student in Pune, Neeraj Dubey, booked for extortion bid [...]

Raghavan panel blames alcoholism in Aman Kachroo case, Centre promises online helpline

Working on helpline for ragging victims: Centre The Hindu, Legal Correspondent, 21 April 2009 Amann’s father suggested creation of an anti-ragging database: Centre Government plans to put in place the mechanism in about a week New Delhi: The Union Ministry of Human Resource Development has began work on developing a model for the crisis-centre helpline [...]

Full text: Amicus Curae’s appeal for directions from the SC in the Aman Kachroo case

(This is the full text of the affidavit which led to the SC asking the Raghavan Committee to inquire into the Aman Kachroo case.) IN THE SUPREME COURT OF INDIA CIVIL APPELLATE JURISDICTION I.A. No. _____ OF 2009 IN CIVIL APPEAL No. 887 OF 2009 IN THE MATTER OF: University of Kerala      …Appellant Versus Council of [...]

And then Suresh Sankhyan wanted to do the post-mortem

Before he died of brain haemorrhage (and not cardiac arrest as the papers incorrectly claimed), Aman Satya Kachroo wrote a note about who beat him up. In the note he named the four accused who are all now in jail. The note reads like a dying declaration and is signed by 12 witnesses. It seems [...]

Why Aman Kachroo’s won’t be the last ragging death, and what his family should do

Update 2: And then Suresh Sankhyan wanted to do the post-mortem * Update: Additional Solicitor General Gopal Subramaniam, who is I think the amicus curae in the ongoing case, says he will ask the Supreme Court to take note of the case and charge the Principal and Vice-Chancellor with “contempt, inaction, negligence and failure.” But [...]