Anti-ragging law to be made stringent

Anti-ragging law to be made stringent


Special Correspondent




MUMBAI: Maharashtra is contemplating an amendment to the anti-ragging law in the State to provide for severe punishment, according to Deputy Chief Minister R.R. Patil.

Mr. Patil was responding to an adjournment motion in the Assembly on Monday in the wake of the suicide by a post-graduate medical student, Digvijay Patil, of a government medical college in Solapur on July 25. The student had blamed four other students for his step in his suicide note. Nobody has been arrested.

Mr. Patil who holds the home portfolio, however, did not specify the punishment but said that it was the responsibility of colleges to protect students against ragging. He said a senior police officer would investigate the Solapur incident and strict action would be taken against the guilty. The doctors involved in the ragging will lose their registration, he said.

link to report : http://www.hindu.com/2007/07/31/stories/2007073155311400.htm