16 September 2009:KOLKATA: Nayan Adak, the first-year BPharma student at Calcutta Institute of Pharmaceutical and Allied Technology, Uluberia, who was allegedly
On Monday, Nayan was discharged from Greenview Nursing Home in Alampur, Howrah. While his father and uncle were taking him back home, police officers called him back and took him to Uluberia police station for further investigation.
"I was taken to Uluberia railway station, where I pointed out the exact location of the incident. Police noted that it was between railway tracks 5 and 6 where I was intercepted by a senior. We had both walked towards Nimdighi along the railway tracks. On Monday, I had shown police a deserted area near the railway lines where the ragging took place," said Adak.
Nayan was then shifted to the bungalow of Howrah Superintendent of Police Hari K Kusumakar. There, he was interrogated by the SP himself for more than an hour. However, since the college was closed on Monday, police could not take Adak to identify his seniors. Police have reportedly identified the three students who had reportedly tortured Nayan. However, they have to be identified by Nayan himself before being arrested. The Uluberia SDPO has asked Nayan's father to bring him to the college for identifying the students over the next couple of days.
The complaint with Uluberia police station was lodged by Nayan's cousin and elder brother on September 10. Since then, police had constantly interrogated some of his batchmates and seniors. Around 56 second-year
students of the college were identified and asked specific questions. A few among them had given inconsistent replies, said sources.
Panel nails 5 JU students
KOLKATA: Two students have been indicted by the three-member inquiry committee, which was set up in Jadavpur University (JU) to probe the alleged ragging of seven first-year engineering and science students in the main hostel late on September 4.
The committee has also named three other students for their complicity in the offence.
The committee will submit its report to acting vice-chancellor Siddhartha Dutta on Wednesday; he will then place it before the anti-ragging committee for its views. The report, along with recommendations from the anti-ragging panel, will be placed before the executive council the highest executive body of the university for punitive action.
The committee reportedly has ample evidence to prove that the accused abused the freshers verbally, forced them to perform sexual acts and made them run errands. The accused are from four departments mechanical, civil, production and physics.
"There is sufficient evidence, which confirms mental, physical and even sexual torture on the first-year students that continued for four hours, from 11 pm to 3 am. Witness to the ragging corroborated this," the report states.
The three-member probe committee included Pinaki Bhattacharya, a representative of the students, and two professors of JU.
Aware of the consequences, the seniors allegedly forced the victims to give it in writing to the vice-chancellor that dean of students Rajat Roy, who went to the main hostel after the incident, forcibly made them sign the complaints. Some of the accused tried to give a political twist to the entire incident saying the CPM-dominated university was trying to frame them as they did not belong to the party's student wing, SFI.
Fellow students, who sympathized with the accused, even lodged an FIR against the authorities on September 7 saying the university was forcibly detaining the alleged victims on the campus even though they were willing to return to the main hostel.
"Initially, the victims confirmed the ragging when I went to meet them. But they backed out in front of the media under pressure from their seniors in hostel. However, it is learnt that they have come out with facts," the dean of students said.
"I am yet to receive the report. However, if the accusations are proved, then punishment will be meted out as and when suggested by the anti-ragging committee and the EC," Dutta said. source:The Times of India
The committee has also named three other students for their complicity in the offence.
The committee will submit its report to acting vice-chancellor Siddhartha Dutta on Wednesday; he will then place it before the anti-ragging committee for its views. The report, along with recommendations from the anti-ragging panel, will be placed before the executive council the highest executive body of the university for punitive action.
The committee reportedly has ample evidence to prove that the accused abused the freshers verbally, forced them to perform sexual acts and made them run errands. The accused are from four departments mechanical, civil, production and physics.
"There is sufficient evidence, which confirms mental, physical and even sexual torture on the first-year students that continued for four hours, from 11 pm to 3 am. Witness to the ragging corroborated this," the report states.
The three-member probe committee included Pinaki Bhattacharya, a representative of the students, and two professors of JU.
Aware of the consequences, the seniors allegedly forced the victims to give it in writing to the vice-chancellor that dean of students Rajat Roy, who went to the main hostel after the incident, forcibly made them sign the complaints. Some of the accused tried to give a political twist to the entire incident saying the CPM-dominated university was trying to frame them as they did not belong to the party's student wing, SFI.
Fellow students, who sympathized with the accused, even lodged an FIR against the authorities on September 7 saying the university was forcibly detaining the alleged victims on the campus even though they were willing to return to the main hostel.
"Initially, the victims confirmed the ragging when I went to meet them. But they backed out in front of the media under pressure from their seniors in hostel. However, it is learnt that they have come out with facts," the dean of students said.
"I am yet to receive the report. However, if the accusations are proved, then punishment will be meted out as and when suggested by the anti-ragging committee and the EC," Dutta said. source:The Times of India
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