According to sources hundreds of students of Jadavpur University are on indefinite hunger strike demanding suspension of two seniors. Strike started on Friday evening. Students are saying that anti-ragging committee branded a minor interaction between seniors and juniors as ragging without proper investigation.
“It was not ragging…but the anti-ragging committee concluded so, without proper investigation. There was no transparency in the process,” said a fourth year student of the civil engineering.
The two students were suspended Sep 11 after a second year engineering student gave a complaint to the University Grants Commission (UGC) that he was beaten up last month. A final year student of construction engineering was suspended for two semesters, and a fourth year student of the printing technology department was handed a one-semester suspension.
As part of the relay hunger-strike, around 400 students have been sloganeering from time to time and holding aloft posters demanding reinstatement of their two suspended colleagues. A section of students has been camping outside the office.
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