West Bengal: Left-Wing Female Student Leaders 'Tortured, Harassed' in Police Custody
Joydeep Sarkar | 08 March 2025 | The Wire
Kolkata: Student protests at Jadavpur University (JU) on March 1 – and the violence that followed – led to eruptions across the state, with students accusing the police of siding with the ruling regime in West Bengal and even beating up and harassing female students who were taken into custody.
Police lodged a First Information Report (FIR) on Thursday (March 6) against West Bengal education minister Bratya Basu, his driver Rehan Molla and JU professor Om Prakash Mishra. This follows a Calcutta high court directive a day earlier urging the state administration to formally register a complaint filed by JU student Indranuj Roy, whose email to the authorities was treated as the basis for the FIR….