Mar 13, 2025 10:43 AM IST
Police arrested a Jadavpur College (JU) scholar in reference to the March 1 unrest and vandalism on the campus.
Police arrested a Jadavpur College (JU) scholar in reference to the March 1 unrest and vandalism on the campus, taking the entire variety of arrests within the case to 2.
College students of Jadavpur College and different Left scholar organisations stage a rally to demand the Authorities announce the coed union election date in faculties and allegedly protest in opposition to TMC members and training minister Bratya Basu for the March 1 violent conflict at JU campus in Kolkata,(Samir Jana/ HT File)
A frontrunner of the JU SFI unit advised PTI on Wednesday that Soumyadip Mahata, a scholar of philosophy, was referred to as to Jadavpur police station to file his assertion in reference to the violence throughout TMC’s West Bengal Faculty and College Professors’ Union AGM the place West Bengal Training Minister Bratya Basu was additionally current.
A gaggle of scholars shaped human chains round Basu’s automobile and tried to stop him from leaving, demanding rapid discussions on the pending scholar union elections.
Two college students have been injured when the minister’s automobile went previous the human chain and left the campus. Within the protests that adopted, the training wing workplace of TMC non-teaching employees was set aflame and several other hoardings and festoons have been put up on the campus.
The College students Federation of India (SFI) chief claimed Mahata was a left scholar activist however not related to the federation.
The organisation together with different scholar protestors will maintain a normal physique assembly on Thursday to debate about their future course of motion within the wake of the arrest, he added.
“While the university authorities are giving assurances of withdrawing cases against student protestors who only demanded holding of long overdue student union polls after five years, our students are getting arrested. This cannot continue,” he mentioned.
A spokesperson of Jadavpur College Academics Affiliation confirmed Soumyadip’s arrest on Wednesday.
On March 2, a former JU scholar was arrested from his rented flat in South Kolkata on prices of being current on the campus through the protest and arson and collaborating within the vandalism.
The ex-student hails from Birbhum and presently works in an IT agency in Salt Lake.
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