A 17-year-old Jadavpur University Fresher lost his life on 10th August after he jumped from the third floor of the University’s Boys’ Hostel. Alleged sexual harassment and ragging have been deemed as the causes behind his death. As of Friday, the police have arrested 12 seniors and ex-students of Jadavpur University.
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The prestigious University in Kolkata has also answered all the questions raised by the University Grants Commission (UGC) concerning ragging reports. Snehamanju Basu, the Registrar of Jadavpur University, informed the Press Trust of India that the varsity has successfully put forth the detailed information demanded by UGC before midnight, on Thursday. She claims that the entire report has been substantiated with documents as evidence.
Details of the 3 newly arrested Jadavpur University Students
The police on Friday made 3 more arrests regarding the ragging allegations surrounding the death of the 17-year-old undergraduate from Jadavpur University. Satyabrata Rai, Himangshu Karmakar, and Sk. Nasim Akhtar are the three students arrested, on Friday. They were summoned for interrogation during the day and were arrested after the police spotted incoherence in the statements made by them. The fresh arrests have raised the total number of ex-students and seniors arrested by the police to 12.
S.S. Chakraborty, the joint C.P. (crime) revealed the identities of the newly arrested Jadavpur University students.
Satyabrata Rai is a final-year computer science engineering student from Haringhata of Nadia district. He was among the Top 50 rank holders in the JEE merit list. He was preparing for his on-campus interviews as well.
Himanghsu Karmakar is a former postgraduate student at Jadavpur University. After pursuing his PG degree in Mathematics, Karmakar was working on his Ph.D. in data sciences at TCG. Karmakar hailed from Shamshedgunj in Murshidabad.
Sk. Nasim Akhtar who is a resident of Memari, East Burdwan was a postgraduate from Jadavpur University in Chemistry.
The two latter names had already graduated from the University but had not left the hostel or the campus. This is a common practice in Jadavpur where economically backward students often continue to live in their hostel rooms until they crack a fortune.
According to sources, it was Satyabrata Rai who had called up the dean of students Rajat Roy. He followed the fake complaint script created by the co-accused culprits Sourav Chowdhury and Saptak Kamilya who have already been arrested for the alleged ragging of the 17-year-old Swapnadip Kundu. He informed the dean that the victim was being “politicized”. It was Rai who had also informed a few of the union members regarding the events that occurred on the 9th of August night.
The Police are Reconstructing the Crime Scene at Jadavpur University
On Friday, the detectives took one of the accused to the JU boys’ hostel campus to reconstruct the events that led to Swanpadip’s jumping off the third-floor balcony.
They took Saptak Kamilya, a key accused charged with ragging allegations, and a student of environmental studies to the campus to chronologically arrange the events. Kamilya was taken into police custody on 16th August.
He, along with eight other seniors and ex-students were arrested following the complaint of ragging that Swapnadip’s father had lodged. At first, all the students taken into police custody gave a tutored statement. But after individual interrogation, the students did break down and began to partially present the truth to the police.
There was some incoherence found in the statements taken separately. Therefore, the police have decided to take the accused students to the crime scene and reconstruct the events one by one to chalk out the reality of the events and the chronology in which they occurred.
In the meanwhile, Swapnadip’s death has raised questions against the Jadavpur University administration and its incapability at protecting its students from ragging. The anti-ragging cell banners can now be seen inside the campus.
Swapnadip’s death has turned into a boiling topic in Bengal’s politics, today. Rallies and protests are being organized seeking justice for the young boy’s death. Everybody including former Indian Captain and ex-BCCI president Sourav Ganguly has slammed this disgusting ragging culture prevalent across Indian Universities and said that educational institutions should have stricter laws.
