(1) Ragging within an educational institution is hereby prohibited.
(2) No person shall participate in, abet, or propagate, ragging in any educational institution.
Explanation.—For the purposes of this section, educational institution shall include—
(a) the premises or the campus of the educational institution, or
(b) the hall, that is to say, the unit of residence of students maintained by the educational institution, if any, or
(c) the hostel, that is to say, the unit of residence for students, if any, not maintained by the educational institution but recognised under any law for the time being in force.
4. Whoever contravenes the provisions of section 3 shall be punished with imprisonment of either description for a term which may extend to two years, or with fine which may extend to five thousand rupees, or with both.
5. If any student is convicted of an offence punishable under section 4, he shall be dismissed from the educational institution in which he has been prosecuting his studies for the time being, and shall not be re-admitted to that educational institution.
6. Without prejudice to the foregoing provisions of this Act, where a student complains of ragging by any other student to the head of the educational institution or to any other person responsible for the management of the educational institution, such head of the educational institution or person responsible for the management of the educational institution shall 124 The West Bengal Prohibition of Ragging in Educational Institutions Act, 2000.
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forthwith inquire into the complaint and if, on such enquiry, the complaint is found to be true, he shall expel the student, who has committed the offence, from the educational institution.
7. Notwithstanding anything contained in section 5 or section 6, any student dismissed under section 5 or expelled under section 6, may appeal in the prescribed manner to the Committee to be constituted by the State Government in the manner prescribed, and the decision of the Committee on such appeal shall be final.