‘We don’t give a damn’, sadly seems the message to Supreme Court of India! Senior students in two educational institutions in UP and Odisha ‘violated’ its guidelines of 2007 for the prevention and prohibition of ragging.

On Monday last, 200 1st year students at UP University of Medical Sciences (UPUMS) in Saifai allegedly were forced to shave their heads, parade on the campus and on their knees offer salutes to their seniors.

In Odisha, seniors were seen ‘slapping juniors while asking them to run down the stairs, tearing off shirts, some being thrashed, some forced to mimic sex scenes while others made to dance in undergarments’ at the State-run Veer Surendra Sai University of Technology in Sambalpur district.

Saifai SDM has ordered a probe and so has the Odisha Skill Development & Technical Education asked the Registrar to do the same.

However, what should be equally shocking is that authorities in both these institutions sprang into action only after photos and video of the incidents went viral on social media!

Remember, the Court had asked State Governments to amend their anti-ragging law to include provisions that place penal consequences on institutional heads. Will they too be made answerable?