Two varsity students held over Jadavpur death: Cops

Two second-year undergraduate students of Jadavpur University were arrested on Sunday in connection with the death of an 18-yearold fresher, who allegedly jumped off the second-floor balcony of his hostel on August 9, police officers said

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The two accused were identified as Dipsekhar Dutta, a student of economics and resident of Bankura district, and Manotosh Ghosh, a second-year sociology student and hails from Hooghly district, officers said, adding they were arrested after night-long interrogation.

Earlier, a former student of the university, Sourav Chowdhury, who completed his MSc in Mathematics in 2022 but continued to stay in the hostel illegally, was arrested on Friday. All three have been remanded in the police custody till August 22.

"Three people have been arrested so far. The probe is being supervised by some of the most senior officers of Kolkata police," Kolkata police commissioner Vineet Goyal told reporters. "We are trying to complete the investigation as fast as possible." Dutta and Ghosh were summoned for questioning after they were named by Chowdhury.

"The two students were arrested after discrepancies were found in their statements," a senior police officer said.