Bihar college fines student for ragging

October 7th, 2009 THIRUVANANTHAPURAM - A 25-year-old teacher hung himself here Wednesday evening, officials said. The incident comes a day after a girl who college authorities said was the man's lover committed suicide by jumping off the fourth floor of her college building.

September 10th, 2009 LUCKNOW - Six students of a private engineering college have been detained for allegedly ragging a student in Uttar Pradesh's Mathura district, police said Thursday. Police detained the six students, who are in their second year at Ganeshi Lal Narayandas Institute of Technology, Wednesday night for ragging Vikas Parashar, a first year student.

September 9th, 2009 BHOPAL - Cases have been registered against around 150 army men from Mhow, a cantonment town near Indore in Madhya Pradesh, for rioting and obstructing government servants in Indore, police said Wednesday. The incident occurred after two army officers were beaten up for objecting to ragging in a medical college.

September 8th, 2009 INDORE - At least three students of Holkar Science College here have been booked for allegedly ragging first year students, police said Tuesday. The victims claimed that they were subjected to ragging by the seniors on Sep 2.

September 1st, 2009 RAIPUR - A student of the Government Engineering College here has been arrested for ragging his junior. He had asked the girl to hug him, police said Tuesday.

August 20th, 2009 GUWAHATI - In yet another glaring case of ragging in Assam, two college students here have been arrested for harassing girls after authorities filed a formal complaint with the police. Hridyananda Baruah, a student of B.Com final year at the K.C.

August 19th, 2009 NEW DELHI - The Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) here Wednesday rusticated nine students for two years and expelled 10 others from the hostel for a year for ragging their juniors. We have completed the investigation.

August 16th, 2009 GUWAHATI - The Dibrugarh University has decided to crack the whip on ragging by expelling a post graduate student and penalizing eight more with varying degrees of punishment, including fines - a move hailed by influential student bodies in Assam Sunday "We are in favour of eradicating ragging from educational institutions and hence welcome the Dibrugarh University's decision to punish errant students found involved in ragging of juniors," Joy Prakash Das, president of the National Students' Union of India (NSUI), the student wing of the Congress party, told IANS. In a path-breaking decision, the university Friday night announced the expulsion of Madhav Kachari, a post graduate Commerce student, besides debarring him from seeking admission to any other institution.

August 4th, 2009 PATNA - Patna College authorities Tuesday began a probe into the alleged ragging of a student in the premises of the institution. Police have lodged a case and arrested the accused, officials said.

August 3rd, 2009 NEW DELHI - Delhi University's Kirori Mal College Monday expelled two students and rusticated another for allegedly ragging a junior in the hostel and decided to file a police complaint. The accused, however, have denied the charges and said their side of the story was not heard.

August 3rd, 2009 NEW DELHI - Authorities at Delhi University's Kirori Mal College Monday said they would take stringent action against two of its students accused of ragging a junior in the hostel and would take up the matter with the police as well. The college authorities received a complaint from a first year student, Ashutosh, that he was being ragged and sexually harassed by two third year students -- Akshay Chaudhary and Hani Mohammad -- in the college hostel Sunday evening.

August 3rd, 2009 NEW DELHI - Delhi University's Kirori Mal College Monday expelled two students and rusticated another for allegedly ragging a junior in the hostel. Delhi Police have registered a case against the two who have denied the charges and said their version was not heard by the college authorities.

July 18th, 2009 SHIMLA - A Himachal Pradesh court Saturday granted bail to two students of a college who were arrested for ragging a fresher, police said. "Two students of a government college in Bilaspur town were granted bail by a court this (Saturday) evening.

July 15th, 2009 SHIMLA - Two students of a Himachal Pradesh college have been booked for ragging their junior, police said Wednesday. The police swung into action after Surya Chandel, a first-year student of a government college in Bilaspur town, alleged that two seniors ragged him along with two outsiders Monday, Superintendent of Police Kuldip Sharma said.

July 12th, 2009 SHIMLA - The Rajendra Prasad Medical College in Himachal Pradesh, where first-year student Aman Kachru died due to ragging, will now bring out an anti-ragging booklet. Kachru, 19, died March 8 this year, a few hours after being allegedly ragged by four final-year students of the college at Tanda town in Kangra district.