Karnataka sets up committee to deal with ragging cases
The Karnataka government has appointed a seven-member high-power
committee to deal sternly with ragging incidents in colleges.
Medical Education Minister Shankar Naik told reporters in Bangalore
that the committee had been vested with full powers to act on
any reported incident of ragging in a college, including suspension
of principals and wardens of the erring colleges and initiation
of criminal proceedings against students involved in such incidents.
He said according to his information, a majority of the students
who are involved in such incidents are from either Bihar or Uttar
Pradesh.
The committee has been directed to gather further information
on such students. The government is also planning to black-list
admissions from certain states if students from those state are
found to indulging in largescale ragging, he added.
Referring to the incident in the Bijapur Medical College where
two students were stripped and forced to have sex, the minister
said following inquiry, the college had suspended 15 students.
The committee would be headed by state medical education director,
the other members are deputy secretary (medical education), registrar,
principals of the Bangalore Medical College, Government Dental
College and Ramaiah College and director of the Minto College.
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