Supreme Court of India

VISHWA JAGRITI MISSION THROUGH PRESIDENTversusCENTRAL GOVERNMENT THROUGH CABINET SECRETARY AND ORS

Citation: 2001 INSC 338
Decided: 3 August 2001
Disposal: Disposed off
Bench: A S ANANDR C LAHOTIK G BALAKRISHNAN

Holding

The Court directed the respondents to give wide publicity to the ragging guidelines, thereby disposing of the petition as settled.

Summary

The petition, filed under Article 32 of the Constitution, sought the Supreme Court’s intervention to curb ragging in educational institutions by directing the Central Government to give wide publicity to the guidelines issued by the Court on 4 May 2001. The petitioner contended that the earlier order had achieved its substantive purpose and that only dissemination of the guidelines remained. The respondents, represented by the Additional Solicitor General, accepted the necessity of such publicity. The Court held that the respondents must ensure wide publicity of the guidelines and that the petition was thereby settled. Accordingly, the writ petition was disposed of as settled, making the earlier order absolute.

Issues considered

Whether the respondents should be directed to give wide publicity to the Supreme Court’s ragging guidelines.
Whether any further relief is required beyond the order dated 4 May 2001.

Subjects

raggingeducational institutionspublic interest litigationArticle 32Supreme Court guidelineswide publicitycivil original jurisdiction

Judgment

           VISHWA JAGRITI MISSION THROUGH PRESIDENT                                A
                                       v.
             CENTRAL GOVERNMENT THROUGH CABINET
                      SECRETARY AND ORS.

                              AUGUST 3, 2001
                                                                                   B
                 [DR. A.S. ANAND, CJ., R.C. LAHOTI AND
                        K.G. BALAKRISHNAN, JJ.]


      Educational Institutions-Ragging-Guidelines laid down and directions
issued by Supreme Court to curb menance of ragging-Wide publicity would            C
be given to said guidelines.

     Vishwa Jagriti Mission through President v. Central Government through
Cabinet Secretary and Ors., [2001 J 3 SCR 540, referred to.
        CIVIL ORIGINAL JURISDICTION : Writ Petition (C) No. 656 of D
1998.
        (Under Article 32 of the Constitution of India).
      Mukul Rohtagi, Additional Solicitor General, Ms. Lalita Kohli, Ms.
Kavita Wadia for Maninder Singh, Ajay Sharma, B.V. Bairam Das, Ms.
Sushma Suri, Sidharth Bhatnagar, Gaurab K. Banerjee and Prashant Kumar             E
for the appearing parties.
        The following Order of the Court was delivered :

       Learned counsel for the petitioner submits that this petition, which was
filed in public interest highlighting the menace prevailing in the educational
institutions of the country in the matter of ragging of fresh students has         F
achieved its purpose through the order of the Court dated 4th May, 2001. He
submits that nothing further is required to be done in so far as this petition
is concerned except that the respondents be directed to give wide publicity
to the suggested guide-lines of the Court as contained in that order.

      The learned Additional Solicitor General, who appears for the                G
respondents, submits that the needful shall be done. We record the statement
and dispose of the writ petition as settled in terms of the order of the Court
dated 4th May, 2001, which is made absolute.

R.P.                                                       Petition disposed of.
                                      297
                                                                                   H

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