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Aman Kachroo Case R Sedhuraman Legal Correspondent New Delhi, April 20 "Alcoholism on the college campus is the main reason that generated violence leading to the serious form of ragging that was seen in the Aman episode." This was the near unanimous response from all quarters (college administration, teachers, non-teaching employees, students, civil authorities, police authorities and the public), the committee said in its report. The report, read out before a Bench headed by Justice Arijit Pasayat, has held a whole lot of people responsible for not checking ragging -- right from the Chancellor (Governor), down to the level of the Vice-Chancellor, the Principal, the district administration, police and students, both seniors and juniors. Even the security guard at the hostel was found wanting in his duty. The voluminous report, the operative part of which runs into 22 pages, has suggested appointment of full-time wardens at college hostels with appropriate communication facilities. The apex court Bench, which also included AK Ganguly, posted the next hearing for April 23. The inquiry committee, which comprised Dr AK Agarwal, Dean, Maulana Azad Medical College, and Dr Rajendra Prasad, Principal, Ramjas College (both in Delhi), had associated Tanvir Aeijaz, Assistant Professor of Ramjas College with it. Additional Solicitor General Gopal Subramanium, who is amicus curiae in the case, apprised the court of the report, while senior counsel Altaf Ahmed and Bimal Roy Jad represented the HP government and Aman's father, Prof Raj Kachroo. The Governor being the Chancellor of Himachal Pradesh, to which RPGMC was affiliated, and the Vice-Chancellor were responsible for monitoring incidents of ragging in the colleges, but there was no monitoring cell at these levels. "Had the activities of RPGMC, Tanda, or other institutions in the state been monitored at the Chancellor's level, the scenario would have been completely different. The VC was expected to seek weekly reports from its affiliated institutions/colleges, which was also not being done." The attitude and role at the university and state levels towards the issue of curbing the menace of ragging was "rather casual". Also, the role of the Medical Council of India (MCI) was rather "strange and irresponsible as is evident from the fact that the guidelines framed by them were made available to RPGMC, Tanda, after the sad demise of Aman Kachroo."
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Govt to set up central agency to prevent ragging A central agency would be set up in a week as a watchdog to prevent and monitor incidents of ragging in educational institutions, the government today told the Supreme Court which received a report establishing a link between alcoholism by senior students and ragging. The concept to set up a central agency with its website having a helpline is the brain child of Rajender Kachroo, father of Aman Satya Kachroo, a first year MBBS student of a medical college from Himachal Pradesh who died due to ragging last month. “Rajender has treated the personal tragedy as a motivation for doing social service and has suggested the setting up of a central agency which will also be in a nature of web-based agency with a helpline and government will make it operational within a week,” additional solicitor general Gopal Subramanium told a Bench headed by Arijit Pasayat. Subramnium, who is assisting the court as a amicus curiae in the matter, placed before the Bench the report of the high-level committee which probed the incident of ragging leading to the death of Amann, a student of Dr Rajendra Prasad Government Medical College (RPGMC), Tanda, in Kangra district.
— PTI
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Begin departmental proceedings against former principal Additional Solicitor General (ASG) Gopal Subramanium, Amicus Curiae in ragging cases, today urged the Supreme Court to issue directions for the appointment of full-time hostel wardens in the Dr Rajendera Prasad Government Medical College, Tanda, and other colleges in Himachal Pradesh. In his 10-point recommendations submitted to a Bench headed by Justice Arijit Pasayat, the ASG also sought appointment of an independent administrator for three years to administer the implementation of the Raghavan Committee suggestions for checking ragging. Among his other recommendations were departmental proceedings against the erstwhile Principal of RPGMC, Dr Suresh Sankhyan, to ascertain his role in exacerbating ragging on campus and posting of a police contingent at RPGMC in view of its “seemingly violent history”. The SHO/SP, in whose jurisdiction a particular college falls, should be made responsible for ensuring that no ragging takes place. An investigation should be carried out into the working of the Medical Council of India (MCI), with an emphasis on the seriousness of its efforts in curbing ragging in medical colleges. Dr Rajendra Kachroo, father of Aman Kachroo - first-year medical student at RPGMC who died due to ragging, should be appointed as an additional member of the Raghavan Committee. Also, a representative from either of the three organisations - Coalition to Uproot Raging from Education or the Society for Peoples' Action, Change and Enforcement - should also join the committee. This is necessary to provide a linkage between the committee's efforts, and the anti-ragging movement by the NGOs. The Bench has posted the next hearing for April 23.
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