NEW DELHI: The National Human Rights Commission has issued notices to human resource development ministry and the Uttar Pradesh government following reports that around 100 students, including boys and girls, have been subjected to inhuman treatment in the name of ragging at Moti Lal Nehru Medical College in Allahabad.

It has been reported that students admitted in MBBS course in the college were beaten up when objected to ragging.

NHRC has observed that “ragging has been banned in the academic institutions, schools and colleges.”

The University Grants Commission has issued guidelines on the subject to be followed by all educational institutions. The Medical Council of India has issued Medical Council of India (Prevention and Prohibition of Ragging in Medical Colleges/ Institutions) Regulations, 2009 to root out ragging in all forms from medical colleges/ institutions in the country by prohibiting it by law. The apex court has also directed that number of recommendations made by the Raghavan Committee be implemented by taking confidence building measures and formation of Anti-Ragging Committees in the institutions,” it said.

The reports suggested that the junior students have been forced to bow down and salute everyone including Class-IV employees of the college. Even the girl students have not been spared as they have been directed to apply oil on their hair and make a Juda (puff). They are not allowed to keep their hair untied.

