After the alleged death of a medical student at Dr Rajendra Prasad Medical College, Tanda in Himachal Pradesh due to ragging by his seniors, the state government has directed the education and home departments to start framing guidelines of an anti-ragging Bill. Himachal Pradesh health minister Rajiv Bindal said that, the guidelines would be vetted by the law department and might be introduced in the monsoon session of the assembly this year.

 

Earlier, post-mortem report of the deceased medical student Aman Kachroo revealed multiple fractures on the body and a massive head injury that led to brain hemorrhage and subsequent death. Additional district magistrate of Kangra district Sanjeev Kumar is conducting the probe into the horrifying ragging incident. This one man committee will submit its report within a fortnight period.

 

Meanwhile, the Central government has decided to move the Supreme Court to mete out exemplary punishment' not just to the four final-year students accused of beating Aman to death, but the institute itself. Additional Solicitor General Gopal Subramaniam said in New Delhi that, central government had last month redirected all institutions to take stringent anti-ragging measures, including filing criminal cases against erring students.