(1) This Act may be called the Assam Prohibition of Ragging Act, 1998.
(2) It extend to the whole of the State of Assam.
(3) It shall come in to force at once.
Definitions. 2. In-this Act, unless the context otherwise requires:-
(a) "Educational Institution" means any college, having \ D_egree classes and/or Higher Secondary classes and/or Post Graduate classes, Junior college and any level of classes above the High School standard, Engineering college or University administered, managed, controlled or run by the Government or otherwise and includes any hostel, boarding, play ground, road, vehicle, premises and other places having nexus with the aforesaid institutions imparting education ;
(b) "Government" means the State Government or the Central Government as the case may be ;
(c) "ragging" means either display of noisy or disorderly conduct or doing of any act which causes or likely to cause social, physical or psychological harm or raise apprehension or fear or shame or embarrassment to any student in any eduactional institution, and includes -
(i) teasing, abusing of, playing practical jokes on or causing hurt to such student, or
(ii) asking the student to do any, a.ct or p~rform something which such student will not, m the ordinary course, willingly do ;
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(d) "State Government" means the Government of Assam;
Prohibition of ragging.
Penalty for ragging.
Expulsion of the student from the educational institution Powers and functions of the head of the educational institution.
(e) "Victimised student" means a student who is a victim of ragging.
3. Ragging in any educational institution is prohibited and no person shall commit, abet, propagate or participate in ragging in any educational institution.
4. Whoever commits, participates in, abets or propagates ragging in any educational institition shall be punished with imprisonment for a term which may extend to six months or with fine which may extend to ten thousand rupees, or with both.