Two extra college students arrested in first-year pupil’s dying in Jadavpur University

Express News Service

KOLKATA: With the arrest of two extra senior college students of Jadavpur University on Sunday in reference to the dying of a first-year pupil, the West Bengal Commission for Protection of Child Rights (WBCPCR) visited the household of the deceased and mentioned brutal torture and sexual assault had been carried out on the sufferer which corroborated the allegation of ragging.

Two second-year college students had been arrested and police mentioned their names emerged in the course of the course of interrogation of former pupil Sourabh Chowdhury, who had been arrested earlier. “We arrested second-year students of the same university Deepshekhar Dutta of economics wing and Manotosh Ghosh of sociology. Interrogation of Sourabh revealed these two students were with him when Swapnodeep Kundu, the deceased, were being ragged,” mentioned a police officer.

All the arrested accused had been booked below homicide expenses as Swapnodeep’s household lodged a criticism.

“We are exploring all possible angles. The investigation is being supervised by the highest level of officers,” mentioned Vineet Goyal, commissioner of Kolkata police.

Swapnodeep, a resident of Bagula in Nadia who took admission on the college on August 3, was discovered mendacity bare on the bottom in entrance of the constructing that homes his hostel-room on the second-floor. He was rushed to a personal hospital in unconscious situation the place he succumbed to his accidents. Later chairperson of the rights physique Sudeshna Roy went to Jadavpur police station and interacted with the officers probing into the incident. The pupil’s mom mentioned that she was requested by her son to take her again dwelling on the day of the incident.

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Ananya Chakraborty, the advisor of the WBCPCR, who met Swapnodeep’s household in Nadia, mentioned, “Why there was no CCTV inside the university premises? Is it a different planet? The student faced torture and sexual assault. Three persons were arrested in the death of the student, everyone in the administration of the institutions has blood on their hands.”

Shankhashubhra Chatterjee, the joint commissioner of police(crime) admitted that there was no CCTVs put in within the campus of the college. “Even if there is a few CCTVs there but none of them is functioning. “Had there been CCTVs, the culprits responsible for the incident could have been identified,” he mentioned.

Criticising the college authorities, former VC of the establishment Abhijit Chakraborty mentioned a number of steps had been taken throughout his tenure to limit entry of outsiders contained in the establishment’s premises however the campus returned to its messy form with liquor spree at night time after he retired. “Other than CCTVs, fencing nets were in place to restrict outsiders’ entry. But after I retired, all of them were removed. Had there been proper surveillance, the unfortunate incident could have been averted,” he mentioned.

KOLKATA: With the arrest of two extra senior college students of Jadavpur University on Sunday in reference to the dying of a first-year pupil, the West Bengal Commission for Protection of Child Rights (WBCPCR) visited the household of the deceased and mentioned brutal torture and sexual assault had been carried out on the sufferer which corroborated the allegation of ragging.

Two second-year college students had been arrested and police mentioned their names emerged in the course of the course of interrogation of former pupil Sourabh Chowdhury, who had been arrested earlier. “We arrested second-year students of the same university Deepshekhar Dutta of economics wing and Manotosh Ghosh of sociology. Interrogation of Sourabh revealed these two students were with him when Swapnodeep Kundu, the deceased, were being ragged,” mentioned a police officer.

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“We are exploring all possible angles. The investigation is being supervised by the highest level of officers,” mentioned Vineet Goyal, commissioner of Kolkata police.

Swapnodeep, a resident of Bagula in Nadia who took admission on the college on August 3, was discovered mendacity bare on the bottom in entrance of the constructing that homes his hostel-room on the second-floor. He was rushed to a personal hospital in unconscious situation the place he succumbed to his accidents. Later chairperson of the rights physique Sudeshna Roy went to Jadavpur police station and interacted with the officers probing into the incident. The pupil’s mom mentioned that she was requested by her son to take her again dwelling on the day of the incident.

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Ananya Chakraborty, the advisor of the WBCPCR, who met Swapnodeep’s household in Nadia, mentioned, “Why there was no CCTV inside the university premises? Is it a different planet? The student faced torture and sexual assault. Three persons were arrested in the death of the student, everyone in the administration of the institutions has blood on their hands.”

Shankhashubhra Chatterjee, the joint commissioner of police(crime) admitted that there was no CCTVs put in within the campus of the college. “Even if there is a few CCTVs there but none of them is functioning. “Had there been CCTVs, the culprits responsible for the incident could have been identified,” he mentioned.

Criticising the college authorities, former VC of the establishment Abhijit Chakraborty mentioned a number of steps had been taken throughout his tenure to limit entry of outsiders contained in the establishment’s premises however the campus returned to its messy form with liquor spree at night time after he retired. “Other than CCTVs, fencing nets were in place to restrict outsiders’ entry. But after I retired, all of them were removed. Had there been proper surveillance, the unfortunate incident could have been averted,” he mentioned.