Eight years after the Supreme Court of India first banned ragging, Dande Devender Kumar has died of it. It is suspected he committed suicide by jumping onto the railway tracks, adding to the list of those who chose to die rather than live the humiliation of ragging. After hanging oneself on the ceiling fans, dying [...]
Filed under: 2008-09, Andhra Pradesh, ragging deaths | Tagged: Dande Devender Kumar, ragging, ragging suicide, Vasavi Engineering College Hyderabad | Leave a Comment »
Tanvir Aeijaz writes from his experience of being part of the sub-committee of the Raghavan Committee that prepared a fact-finding report on the Aman Kachroo case for the Supreme Court: …not all but some juniors are targeted, as they are perceived as weak, vulnerable and pliant maybe in terms of gender, religion, caste, class and [...]
Filed under: 2008-09, Himachal Pradesh, ragging deaths, research and opinion | Tagged: Aman Kachroo, ragging | Leave a Comment »
Click here to sign the petition. After collecting signatures till 1 June, a print will be posted to the Prime Minister’s office.
Filed under: letters and petitions | Tagged: Indian Penal Code, Prime Minister of India, ragging | 11 Comments »
Before he died of brain haemorrhage (and not cardiac arrest as the papers incorrectly claimed), Aman Satya Kachroo wrote a note about who beat him up. In the note he named the four accused who are all now in jail. The note reads like a dying declaration and is signed by 12 witnesses. It seems [...]
Filed under: 2008-09, Ragging and the Law | Tagged: Aman Kachroo, Dr Rajendra Prasad Medical College, ragging, Suresh Sankhyan, Tanda | 4 Comments »
