6 more held over Jadavpur death

Police in Kolkata have arrested six more people in connection with the death of a first-year student of Jadavpur University (JU) last week that has sparked allegations of brutal ragging on campus, taking the total number of arrests in the case to nine, officials said on Wednesday.

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All the accused - five current students and four former students were produced before a city court and remanded in police custody till August 28. Five mobile phones and a laptop were also seized from them, the officials said.

Two varsity officials were also interrogated on Wednesday in connection with the case, the officials added.

West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee had earlier spoken to the victim's family and assured all assistance in the case. Governor CV Ananda Bose held an emergency meeting with varsity authorities at Raj Bhavan on Wednesday.

On August 9, the 18-year-old student from Nadia district was found lying naked in a pool of blood in front of the main hostel building outside the university campus by students at around 11.45pm. Police said the teen allegedly fell from the secondfloor balcony of his hostel where he was staying since August 6. His body bore several injury marks and he was rushed to a private hospital where he died.