CU VC harassment in Kolkata college: Strict stance taken against accused students

After the governing committee's meeting, the college authority has decided to suspend 9 students, who conducted the protest that day, for one year.

"After completing the identification process, we have suspended 9 students for 1 year. More 77 protesting students have been directed to beg apology from CU VC Sugata Marjit. Our college have decided to lodge an FIR against one outsider youth, who took part in the demonstration that day. We are sending a letter to Deshbandhu College for Girls as well, requesting to take step against 3-4 students of that college, who were leading the protests here that day," one senior member of Vivekananda College for Women's governing council told IBNS.

Demanding permission to allow them in Part-II final exams, as many as 95 unsuccessful students of Vivekananda College for Women and few outsiders demonstrated in the college campus on Tuesday (Apr 5), when CU VC Sugata Marjit was present there. Marjit was caught in a scuffle with the protesting students there.

According to sources, after looking into the CCTV footage, two outsider protesters, who took very active role in the demonstration there, were marked out as Wahida Khatoon and Tinku Das. They are the General Secretary and Assistant General Secretary respectively of the ruling Trinamool Congress (TMC)'s students wing Trinamool Chhatra Parishad (TMCP) ruled Deshbandhu College for Girls' students union.

These two TMCP leaders, however, have been suspended from the party for two years and issued show-cause notices, TMCP's state president Ashok Rudra claimed.

(Reporting by Deepayan Sinha)