Bhubaneswar, Sept. 18 -- Taking strong congnizance of allegations of ragging in different educational institutions, the Odisha Human Rights Commission (OHRC) has written to secretaries of Health & Family Welfare, Skill Development & Technical Education departments to furnish responses on steps taken to curb torture being meted out to the freshers in an institution.
The Commission has asked them to submit a report in this regard by October 11, 2019, further directing for a response on why such activities shall not be treated as criminal and why the students involved in ragging should not be penalized under the criminal law.
The OHRC directive is based on a petition filed by the convener and members of the Ragging Free Campus Abhiyan in Bhu...