The Director of Medical Education cum Principal of the Medical College , Simla also filed an affidavit opposing the admission of the Writ Petition on the ground that the college authorities had taken various steps for the purpose of curbing the evil of ragging and in fact had taken action On at least two occasions awarding punishment to the students who indulged in ragging by suspending them for a period of 4 to 6 months , The Division Bench , on a consideration of this material placed before it , came to the conclusion that the practice of ragging was prevailing in the Medical College , Simla on a noticeable scale and that ragging took the form of subjecting freshers including female students to inhuman and humiliating treatment degenerating even into physical violence and that the college authorities had not been able to effectively control ragging with the result that the college administration had lost confidence of a sizeable section of student , parents and well wishers as regards its capacity to deal with the problem of ragging.