Overview
As per the order of the Supreme Court of India and the subsequent notification from the University Grants Commission (UGC), ragging constitutes one or more of any intention by any student or group of students on:
- Any act of indiscipline, teasing or handling with rudeness.
- Any act that prevents or disrupts regular academic activity.
- Any act of financial extortion or forceful expenditure.
- Any activity which is likely to cause annoyance, hardship, psychological harm or creates fear or apprehension.
- Any act of abuse by spoken words, emails, WhatsApp, SMS or public insult.
- Any act of injury or infringement of the fundamental right to human dignity.
- Any act of physical abuse causing assault, harm or danger to health.
- Any act of wrongful confinement, kidnapping, molesting or committing unnatural offences, use of criminal force, trespass or intimidation.
- Any unlawful assembly or conspiracy to ragging.

