Ragging is defined as "Any act causing, inducing, compelling or forcing a student, whether by way of practical joke or otherwise, to do any act which detracts from human dignity or violates his person or exposes him to ridicule or forebears from doing any lawful act, by intimidating, wrongfully restraining, wrongfully confining, or injuring him by using criminal force towards him or by holding out to him any threat of such intimidation, wrongful restraint, wrongful confinement, injury or the use of criminal force."