Last Update: January 09, 2023, 18:59 IST
The court also issued notices to the commissioners of higher education, technical education and health, medical services and medical education (File Photo/PTI)
The action was taken after the victim’s father lodged a complaint that his son had left home to commit suicide due to depression following ragging and was rescued from a railway station.
The Gujarat High Court on Monday issued notice to the state education department on a PIL on the ‘menace of ragging’ after considering a recent news report about an incident at a medical college in Vadodara.
A division bench of Chief Justice Arvind Kumar and Justice Ashutosh Shastri issued notice to the additional chief secretary of the state education department.
The court also issued notices to the commissioners of higher education, technical education and health, medical services and medical education.
“A letter was sent by a sitting judge of this court to one of us (Chief Justice) enclosing a newspaper report highlighting the problem of ragging in the state of Gujarat,” the court said.
read | UGC urges colleges, universities to take action in line with National Suicide Prevention Strategy
The court said that in view of the said threat published in the newspaper on January 3, 2023, it was of the view that the departments concerned should be called upon to take steps to prevent the same by issuing returnable notices on January 30 .
The news report was about three senior resident students of a private medical college in Vadodara who were suspended by the college administration for allegedly ragging a junior student.
The action came after the victim’s father lodged a complaint that his son had left home to commit suicide due to depression following ragging and was rescued from a railway station.
According to news reports, senior students were accused of publicly abusing him, extorting money and forcing him to do his chores.
Junior residents of a medical college in Ahmedabad had also lodged a complaint of ragging last month.
In October last year, another case of ragging came to light at a private university in Rajkot, where a 19-year-old student was molested by five senior students living in the same hostel.
read all latest education news Here
(This story has not been edited by News18 staff and is published from a syndicated news agency feed)