JU stakeholders hold protest, demand normality inside campus

With participation of teachers, non-teaching employees and parents of students the ongoing protests at the Jadavpur University intensified further on Wednesday, four days after the violence inside the campus.

- STATESMAN NEWS SERVICE

Calcutta High Court on Wednesday directed Kolkata Police to register an FIR based on the complaint filed by Indranuj Roy, the student of Jadavpur University (JU) during the ruckus within the university campus on March 1 after being hit allegedly by the vehicle of education minister Bratya Basu.

The single-judge Bench of Justice Tirthankar Ghosh gave this direction acting on a petition filed in his Bench earlier this week accusing the Kolkata Police of conducting a "biased and one-sided probe" in the March 1 ruckus within the university campus.

In the petition, it was alleged that all the seven FIRs filed were either registered suo motu by the cops against the students or on the basis of the complaints filed against the students by the Trinamul Congress-affiliated West Bengal College & University Professors' Association (WBCUPA).

Justice Ghosh also directed the state government to file a detailed report in the matter. The next hearing in the matter will be on March 12, while the state government and the petitioner will have to file their respective affidavits in the matter to the court on the same day.

During the hearing, Justice Ghosh also made some observations on the intelligence failure on the part of the Special Branch of the Kolkata Police that they did not have prior information about students' agitation while the education minister was there.