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JU student death case: Case filed on complaint by Suvendu Adhikari, says Kolkata Police

Kolkata: Kolkata Police on Tuesday said it had registered a case in connection with the student death at Jadavpur University on a complaint lodged by the leader of Opposition in the West Bengal Assembly, Suvendu Adhikari.
The complaint was filed at Jadavpur police station in Kolkata.
Further, according to Kolkata Police, a notice was sent by Jadavpur Police to the BJP leader, asking him to share further details in connection with his complaint with the investigating officer at the earliest.
A first-year undergraduate student died after falling from the second-floor balcony of the varsity’s main hostel on August 9.
The deceased identified as Swarnodip Kundu was allegedly subjected to ragging before his death, his family alleged.
As many as 12 people have been arrested in connection with the case to date.
Earlier, a four-member fact-finding committee was formed by the state government in light of the incident and the protests it evoked. The panel was asked to submit its report within two weeks.
The death of the first-year student evoked massive protests, prompting the varsity authorities to enforce various measures, including making identity cards mandatory for visitors and installing CCTVs at strategic points, to boost security on campus.
On Monday, University Grants Commission Chairman M Jagadesh Kumar said the university had failed to give a satisfactory reply on the action taken in the case so far.
The university's Dean of Science Faculty, Subenoy Chakraborty, who headed the 10-member committee investigating the student's death, resigned from his post on Sunday.
The BJP's youth wing earlier condemned the incident and accused the varsity of housing "anti-national forces".
Hitting back at the BJP amid criticism over the JU student death, the spokesperson for the ruling Trinamool Congress, Kunal Ghosh, claimed that the majority of ragging incidents are reported from medical colleges in Uttar Pradesh and Madhya Pradesh where the saffron party is in power.
Barely a week ago, Congress state president Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury had urged the Mamata Banerjee government to bring an anti-ragging law in the state in the wake of the JU incident. (ANI)

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