UGC asks Jadavpur University to submit report on scholar’s demise
4 min readBy Express News Service
KOLKATA: The University Grants Commission (UGC) on Monday sought a report from the Jadavpur University authorities on its discovering within the demise of a first-year scholar who is claimed to be a sufferer of alleged ragging by seniors.
The UGC’s anti-ragging cell requested the college authorities to submit the report by August 21. Following receipt of the report, the UGC will dispatch a staff of its anti-ragging cell to conduct an on-the-ground inquiry, stated a JU official.
The UGC, in its communication, has offered a format that the college should comply with whereas submitting the report. According to the format, the establishment should present data on its anti-ragging committee’s inquiry and the conclusion it reached.
“The central government’s statutory body, in its format, asked the university authorities to mention the CCTVs installed on the campus covering the hostels for its students. It is a fact that there were no CCTVs where the incident took place. But in the UGC guideline, installation of CCTVs was clearly mentioned,” stated one other JU official.
After visiting the campus on Sunday, joint commissioner of police Shankhashubhra Chatterjee admitted that the CCTVs weren’t current and there have been a couple of that weren’t purposeful.
Swapnodeep Kundu, a resident of Bagula in Nadia, was discovered mendacity bare on the bottom in entrance of the constructing that homes his hostel room on the second ground on Thursday final week. The scholar, who’s but to show 18, was rushed to a non-public hospital in an unconscious situation the place he succumbed to his accidents.
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The West Bengal Commission for Protection of Child Rights (WBCPCR) visited the household of the deceased on Sunday and stated brutal torture and sexual assault have been carried out on the sufferer.
Police already arrested three individuals, a former scholar and two second-year college students, in reference to Swapnodeep’s demise. His household lodged a grievance alleging that the coed was ragged and murdered by senior college students.
The Commission for Child Protection Rights, too, served a discover on the college asking it to tell the measures that have been taken to stop ragging.
On Monday, the warmth of the unnatural demise of a scholar in Kolkata’s one of many premiere establishments unfold to different components of the state capital as college students of different establishments staged demonstrations.
The college students of Aliah University in Park Circus staged an indication in protest towards Swapnodeep’s demise. The activists of SFI, the coed wing of the CPM, put up a roadblock in entrance of Jadavpur University.
KOLKATA: The University Grants Commission (UGC) on Monday sought a report from the Jadavpur University authorities on its discovering within the demise of a first-year scholar who is claimed to be a sufferer of alleged ragging by seniors.
The UGC’s anti-ragging cell requested the college authorities to submit the report by August 21. Following receipt of the report, the UGC will dispatch a staff of its anti-ragging cell to conduct an on-the-ground inquiry, stated a JU official.
The UGC, in its communication, has offered a format that the college should comply with whereas submitting the report. According to the format, the establishment should present data on its anti-ragging committee’s inquiry and the conclusion it reached.googletag.cmd.push(perform() googletag.show(‘div-gpt-ad-8052921-2’); );
“The central government’s statutory body, in its format, asked the university authorities to mention the CCTVs installed on the campus covering the hostels for its students. It is a fact that there were no CCTVs where the incident took place. But in the UGC guideline, installation of CCTVs was clearly mentioned,” stated one other JU official.
After visiting the campus on Sunday, joint commissioner of police Shankhashubhra Chatterjee admitted that the CCTVs weren’t current and there have been a couple of that weren’t purposeful.
Swapnodeep Kundu, a resident of Bagula in Nadia, was discovered mendacity bare on the bottom in entrance of the constructing that homes his hostel room on the second ground on Thursday final week. The scholar, who’s but to show 18, was rushed to a non-public hospital in an unconscious situation the place he succumbed to his accidents.
ALSO READ | Two extra college students arrested in first-year scholar’s demise in Jadavpur University
The West Bengal Commission for Protection of Child Rights (WBCPCR) visited the household of the deceased on Sunday and stated brutal torture and sexual assault have been carried out on the sufferer.
Police already arrested three individuals, a former scholar and two second-year college students, in reference to Swapnodeep’s demise. His household lodged a grievance alleging that the coed was ragged and murdered by senior college students.
The Commission for Child Protection Rights, too, served a discover on the college asking it to tell the measures that have been taken to stop ragging.
On Monday, the warmth of the unnatural demise of a scholar in Kolkata’s one of many premiere establishments unfold to different components of the state capital as college students of different establishments staged demonstrations.
The college students of Aliah University in Park Circus staged an indication in protest towards Swapnodeep’s demise. The activists of SFI, the coed wing of the CPM, put up a roadblock in entrance of Jadavpur University.
