Kolkata: An uneasy calm prevailed on Jadavpur University campus on Sunday after violent protests by Leftist students and heckling of West Bengal Education Minister Bratya Basu on the previous day.
The windscreen of the minister’s car was smashed by protesters and two of the agitators were injured, one of them seriously, when the tyre of one of the vehicles in his convoy grazed past them.
A university official said a forensic team is expected to visit the campus during the day.
A former student of the university, Md Sahil Ali, was arrested from a rented flat in Bijoygarh area in southern part of city late on Saturday on the charge of vandalising the office of TMC’s Shiksha Cell (academic wing) on the JU campus, a Kolkata Police officer said.
Ali, who works in an IT firm, hails from Mohammed Bazar area in Birbhum district.
The arson and rampage took place after two students were injured, one of them seriously, as tyres of one of the cars in the minister’s convoy grazed past them.
The university’s officiating Vice Chancellor Bhaskar Gupta was allegedly verbally abused by a section of Leftist students when he visited one of the injured students, Indranuj Roy, at a nearby private medical college and hospital.
The ruling Trinamool Congress’s Shiksha Cell office on the campus, which was set ablaze by angry protesters after the minister’s convoy left the university, bore telltale signs of rampage as gutted festoons, chairs and other articles were seen lying in a heap outside the room.
