CALCUTTA HIGH COURTTO STATE IN PLEA AGAINST RAGGING IN BENGAL'S UNIVERSITIES; CONDUCT STUDENT BODY ELECTIONS, SET UP ANTI-RAGGING COMMITTEE

The Calcutta High Court in the case Sudip Raha v Jadavpur University & Ors and Sayan Banerjee v State of WB & orsobserved and has expressed concerns over the endemic of ragging prevalent across Universities in West Bengal, and the nonimplementation of a report by the RK Raghavan Committee, which was being constituted in the year 2009 by the Supreme Court to reduce instances of ragging.

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The Division bench comprising of CJ TS Sivagnanam and Justice Hiranmay Bhattacharya in the case observed and has directed the implementation of the report of the committees.

In the present case, the plea arose out of the unfortunate death of a 1st year student at Jadavpur University, due to incidents which relates to the ragging and violence.

It has been pointed out by the petitioner that the RK Raghavan report's recommendations on regular conduct of student elections, as well as constitution of anti-ragging committees and anti-ragging squads had not yet been implemented.