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*IIT-Kanpur Suspends 22 for Abusing, Thrashing Juniors.

IIT-Kanpur has suspended 22 second-year B.Tech students for as long as up to three years for ragging juniors. Sixteen of them won't be allowed to attend classes for three years, and the rest six for a year. Major institutions in India are stepping up against ragging. In August, AIIMS suspended 12 students for ragging and misbehaving with juniors. Moreover, the president and other office-bearers of the student gymkhana have been removed from posts for ignoring the juniors' complaint.

In India, ragging is banned in all campuses. Such acts are punishable by fines of up to Rs. 50,000, jail terms ranging from six months to 10 years, and awarding of certificates that "the student had indulged in ragging" which can adversely affect career prospects.

Action was expedited only after a professor wrote about it on his blog. The students will have no right to appeal against the decision till the suspension period ends; they will be allowed to take admission afterwards. However, no police complaint has been filed against them so as not to jeopardize their future career prospects further.