Jadavpur University student arrested in connection with March 1 vandalism on campus

Police arrested a Jadavpur University (JU) student in connection with the March 1 unrest and vandalism on the campus, taking the entire variety of arrests in the case to 2.

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A frontrunner of the JU SFI unit instructed PTI on Wednesday that Soumyadip Mahata, a student of philosophy, was known as to Jadavpur police station to file his assertion in connection with the violence throughout TMC’s West Bengal School and University Professors’ Union AGM the place West Bengal Training Minister Bratya Basu was additionally current.

A gaggle of scholars shaped human chains round Basu’s automotive and tried to stop him from leaving, demanding speedy discussions on the pending student union elections.

Two college students had been injured when the minister’s automotive went previous the human chain and left the campus. Within the protests that adopted, the training wing workplace of TMC non-teaching workers was set aflame and a number of other hoardings and festoons had been put up on the campus.

The College students Federation of India (SFI) chief claimed Mahata was a left student activist however not related with the federation.

The organisation alongside with different student protestors will maintain a basic physique assembly on Thursday to debate about their future course of motion in the wake of the arrest, he added.

“Whereas the college authorities are giving assurances of withdrawing instances towards student protestors who solely demanded holding of lengthy overdue student union polls after 5 years, our college students are getting arrested. This can’t proceed,” he stated.

A spokesperson of Jadavpur University Academics Affiliation confirmed Soumyadip’s arrest on Wednesday.

On March 2, a former JU student was arrested from his rented flat in South Kolkata on fees of being current on the campus in the course of the protest and arson and participating in the vandalism.

The ex-student hails from Birbhum and at the moment works in an IT agency in Salt Lake.