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JU protest: Police detains students from Salt Lake

JU protest: Police detains students from Salt Lake

India Blooms News Service | | 04 Oct 2014, 03:16 pm
Kolkata, Oct 4 (IBNS): While the students of Jadavpur University (JU) and other well know city campuses continued to protest over the incidents on the JU campus last month, police action to stop the agitations followed.

Police from Bidhannagar North Police Station on Friday detained 13 students who were staging protest against the police crackdown on agitating Jadavpur University (JU) students last month.

A few number of students from JU, Presidency University (PU) and St. Xavier's College were demonstrating through songs and parodies at Laboni Apartment Crossing in Salt Lake City when the police took them in custody.

Police came to the spot and asked them to end their protest. But the protesters continued with their agitation, prompting cops to detain 13 students. They were taken to Bidhannagar North Police Station. Police charged them under section 151 of IPC (knowingly joining or continuing in assembly of five or more persons after it has been commanded to disperse).

According to police, the protesters were trying to block the roads during the protest. But, the protesters said their demonstration was peaceful and police only rounded them up to stop them.

After 1 hour at 7 pm., police released them. A police van dropped them near Ultadanga Crossing.

At least 35 students of the prestigious Jadavpur University (JU) were arrested at around 2 am on Sept 16 night for staging protests in front of the main administrative building within the campus and the vice chancellor, whom they labelled as a Trinamool Congress man.

Students alleged that their members were dragged, manhandled and girls molested by the police officers and those who cracked down on them. They claimed activists from the Trinamool Chhatra Parishad (TMCP), the student's arm of West Bengal’s ruling Trinamool Congress, also came in with the police.

The JU students had staged a sit-in demonstration at the main administrative building of the university this month demanding an unbiased probe- with neutral panel sans ruling party members- into the alleged molestation of a second-year student by students from the university some time back.

Since then a student stir continued which also went viral in social networking site as Hok Kolorob meaning Let There Be Noise.

(Reporting by Deepayan Sinha)

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