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Total prohibition of ragging and penalties therefore. (1) Ragging in any form shall be strictly prohibited within the premises of the University, a college or an institution, as the case may be, or in any part of the University system as well as on public transport, or at any other place, public or private. (2) Any individual or collective act or practice of ragging shall constitute an act of gross indiscipline and shall be dealt with under the provisions of this ordinance. (3) Ragging, for the purposes of this ordinance, shall ordinarily mean any act, conduct or practice by which the dominant power or status of senior students is brought to bear upon the students who are in any way considered junior or inferior by the former and includes individual or collective acts or practices which- (a) Involve physical assault or threat to use physical force; (b) Violate the status, dignity and honour of students, in particular women students and those belonging to a scheduled caste or a scheduled tribe; (c) Expose students to ridicule or contempt or commit an act which may lower their self esteem; and (d) Entail verbal abuse, mental or physical torture, aggression, corporal punishment, harassment, trauma, indecent gesture and obscene behaviour. (4) The Dean of the school, Director of the institution or the Principal of the college, as the case may be, shall take immediate action on the receipt of any information that ragging has taken place or is likely to take place. (5) Notwithstanding anything contained in clause (4), the chairman of the Board of Discipline of a University teaching department or the convenor of the Board of Discipline of an affiliated college or institution may also suo motu inquire into any incident of ragging or likelihood of such incident and make a report to the Vice-Chancellor clearly pinpointing, among other details, the identity of the student or the students who were involved in the incident and the nature of the incident. (6) The chairman or the convenor of the Board of Discipline, as the case may be, may also submit an interim report to the Vice-Chancellor establishing the 122 identity of the perpetrators of ragging and the nature of the incident. (7) The chairman of a Board of Discipline is satisfied that for any reason, to be recorded in writing, it is not feasible to hold an inquiry referred to in clauses (4) and (5), he may so advise the Vice-Chancellor accordingly. (8) Where the Vice-Chancellor is satisfied, on receipt of a recommendation to this effect or otherwise, that it is not expedient to hold an inquiry into an incident of ragging, he shall order accordingly for reasons to be recorded in writing.