Kolkata, March 8 (IANS) Videos substantiating Jadavpur University (JU) students being hit by the West Bengal Education Minister Bratya Basu’s car during the ruckus within the university campus on March 1 afternoon have been submitted to the investigating officials, said CPI(M)’s youth leader and the former state secretary of the party student wing Students’ Federation of India (SFI) Srijan Bhattacharya on Saturday.
He faced a marathon interrogation for around three hours in relation to the March 1 ruckus.
However, there has been no reaction from the cops as yet as regards the claims made by Bhattacharya after emerging from the police station.
Bhattacharya was asked to be present at the local Jadavpur Police Station on Saturday evening with all the video footage and pictures on the March 1 ruckus available with him.
Recently, while interacting with the media persons Bhattacharya presented some pictures and video clippings to substantiate SFI’s claims of the two students being injured being hit by the minister’s car.
Accordingly, he reached the police station at around 7 p.m. reportedly with all the documents that he was asked to bring along with him. As soon as Bhattacharya, also an alumnus of Jadavpur University, entered the police station the SFI activists assembled in front of the police station claiming that they would remain assembled there unless their leaders come out.
To recall, the ruckus broke out within the university campus on March 1 when the Minister’s car was allegedly stopped after it entered the campus, and a scuffle followed. The students were demanding immediate elections for the university’s students’ council.
The agitating students alleged that while Basu decided to leave the campus in the face of the protests, his vehicle deliberately hit the two agitating students, following which they were severely injured and had to be hospitalised. Amid the protests, the Minister received minor injuries and fell sick. He was taken to the state-run S.S.K.M. Medical College & Hospital and was discharged later.
–IANS
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