Two JU students held for ‘molestation’, freed on bail

Earlier in the day, apparently referring to students’ massive protest last year against the then V-C, West Bengal Governor K N Tripathi questioned the silence of the students on the issue.

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“Why the students of the university are silent now? Why they are not identifying the accused students and producing them to the police?” asked Governor Tripathi, while speaking to mediapersons on the sidelines of an event here.

On March 21, a first-year student of the Sanksrit department lodged a complaint with the Jadavpur police station stating she was “molested” by three engineering students when she refused to allow them to check her bag before entering the college fest organised by the Faculty of Engineering Technology Students’ Union on the campus.

Meanwhile, state education minister Partha Chatterjee said the police were investigating the case and advised the students to be more “disciplined”. He, however, said such incidents happen during college fests.

“The students should be more disciplined in the university. These kind of incidents keep on happening during fests in the university. The students and the teachers should be alert and they should take precautionary measures to minimise these kind of incidents,” added Chatterjee.

A similar case on the campus last year had triggered an outrage among the varsity students when the then V-C Abhijit Chakrabarti had called to disperse a gherao by the students. Chakrabarti had to resign following months of protest by the students.

With PTI inputs