Definitions

In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires, (a) "Act" means the Punjab Educational Institutions (Prohibition of Ragging) Act; (b) "Anti Ragging Committee" means a Committee as constituted in section 4; (c) "Appellate Authority" means a Authority as established in section 6; (d) "educational institution" means any University, College affiliated to or maintained by any University, any school imparting secondary education, or institution imparting Polytechnic, technical or medical education and includes such other institutions as may be notified by the State Government in the Official Gazette; (e) "Government" means the Government of Punjab in the Department of Higher Education and Languages; and (f) "ragging" means any act, conduct or practice by which dominant power of senior students, former students or outsiders, is brought to bear on students freshly enrolled or students, who are in any way considered junior by other students and includes individual or collective acts or practices which, (i) involve physical or psychological assault or threat or use of force or wrongful confinement or restraint; or (ii) violate the status, dignity and honour of such students; or (iii) expose students to ridicule and contempt and affect their self-esteem; or (iv) entail verbal abuse and aggression, indecent gestures and obscene behaviour.