‘Parents filed plaint, not univ or students’

Kolkata: Kalyan Bandyopadhyay, senior counsel for petitioner Sudip Raha, said neither the students nor the university had lodged a complaint reporting the fresher’s death. “The parents filed the complaint. The students even prevented the police from entering the Main Hostel premises after the incident,” he submitted. He recalled that a JU VC (Abhijit Chakraborty) was gheraoed by students for 53 hours and was forced to resign and his successor in 2016 ordered removal of the CCTV cameras from the campus.Advocate-general S N Mookherjee said: “ Students’ freedom... has gone beyond limits and some harsh measures have to be taken.”When senior counsel Soumya Majumdar drew the court’s attention to the hunger strike in some hostels on grounds that they were inconvenienced by the varsity’s decision to shift freshers from the main hostel to hostels on the campus, the CJ observed, “This is an in-house problem and has to be tackled in-house.”
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