Shimla: The Himachal Pradesh government is preparing to bring a new ordinance to check ragging since the one issued in 1992 against the menace was neither revalidated nor replaced by a legislative enactment.
"I have directed the Home department to prepare a new ordinance against ragging in the state," Chief Minister Prem Kumar Dhumal, whose government is facing criticism over the tragic death of 19-year-old student Aman Kachroo of Dr Rajendra Prasad Government Medical College Tanda due to alleged ragging, told PTI.
"The home department has started working on it and after consulting the law department, hopefully, the new ordinance will come into force in the state next week," Dhumal said.
The matter came to light when the police booked four senior students of Tanda medical college in Kangra district initially under 304 of IPC (culpable homicide), which was later converted into 302 (murder) based on an autopsy report and on the ordinance brought by the then Shanta Kumar government in the state in 1992.
Since the 1992 ordinance was neither revalidated nor replaced by legislative enactment in the past 17 years, it lost legal teeth.
Dhumal said he has passed an order to formulate a new ordinance against ragging, which will be tabled in the coming monsoon session of the state assembly.
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