[http://cities.expressindia.com/fullstory.php?newsid=244962] Link to reportExpress News ServiceNew Delhi, July 08: As Part of Delhi University Students Union’s Anti Ragging Squad’s effort to check incidents of ragging, victim students can instantly register their complaint at the area SHO or to the area ACP.Narendra Tokas, All India chairman of the National Students’ Union of India, said, “ This step has been taken to protect the peaceful environment in the campus so that the students can easily adjust themselves and incidents like suicides do not occur”.Students, too, expressed satisfaction about the move. “DUSU has taken a good step by providing helpline numbers of the officials too,” said Nasser, an engineering aspirant at IP College.Apoorva, a BSc Life Science student at KMC College said, “These measures would definitely help in checking rising number of ragging incidents which take place across the campus.”“Action would only be taken against serious kind of ragging and that too only after a complaint of that type has been filed by the sufferer,” said Tokas.The accused may face an imprisonment of 2-3 years (in case of outsiders) or may get rusticated from the college (in case of insider).“No such incident of ragging or suicides were reported in DU last year due which automatically makes the need for the revival of such stringent decisions in this session as well,” said Mr. Gurmeet Singh Proctor, Delhi University.
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