Jadavpur, May 6: Massive clashed were reported in Jadavpur University, as a riot broke out in the campus between the volunteers of Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad (ABVP) and the members of Students’ Union. The controversy triggered off after filmmaker Vivek Agnihotri arrived at the campus for a specials screening of his upcoming contentious movie Buddha in a traffic jam, which evidently shows communists in a poor light. Amid the clashes between ABVP members and leftist students, a molestation report propped up from within the campus.
University Vice Chancellor Suranjan Das arrived at the campus late on Friday evening, along with police forces. At least 4 men, suspected to be ABVP volunteers, were held by the students on accusations of molesting the girl. All of them have been handed over to the police. (ALSO READ: Riots break out in Jadavpur University over screening of ‘Buddha in a traffic jam’; ABVP members rushed to hospital)
Police personnels have been deployed inside the campus to bring the situation under control. BJP’s prominent state leader Roopa Ganguly arrived at the scene, along with volunteers of BJP, demanding the police to let her enter inside the campus and take stock of situation. She has accused the University authorities of framing 4 innocent people, who were not related to the molestation, as culprits. Roopa has demanded the Jadavpur police to release the detained individuals, taken into custody on charges of molestation, at the earliest.
Meanwhile University Registrar claimed that Vivek Agnihotri had no permission to screen his movie inside the campus. They have blamed his arbitrary style of entering the campus and attempting to screen the movie as the triggering point for the entire row. As per latest reports, 3 ABVP members have been admitted into hospital after being thrashed brutally inside the campus.
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