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LATEST NEWS UPDATES | West Bengal student leader dies in police custody; SFI alleges murder

West Bengal student leader dies in police custody; SFI alleges murder

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published Published on Apr 3, 2013   modified Modified on Apr 3, 2013
-The Times of India


KOLKATA: A 22-year-old post graduate student and leader of CPM's students' wing SFI, died of injuries sustained in police custody, prompting the Left Front to demand a judicial probe on Tuesday while chief minister Mamata Banerjee and her senior cabinet colleagues attended the IPL inauguration ceremony barely a few km away.

Police claimed SFI state committee member Sudipto Gupta's death was an accident while the victim's kin alleged that he was beaten up in custody after his arrest along with others while protesting against the Mamata Banerjee government's decision to put students' union elections on hold.

Gupta, a student of Rabindra Bharti University and hailing from Garia in South Kolkata, and some other SFI activists were herded into a bus after their arrest while leading a protest to the Raj Bhavan. Left Front chairperson Biman Bose gave a 12-hour bandh call in Ganria and Tollygunge areas on Thursday.

According to police, Sudipto was leaning out of the bus on the way to Presidency Jail when he hit a lamp post. But his associates said they were beaten up by batons inside the bus and in the commotion, Sudipto fell from the bus. "The police didn't spare him even after the fall and kept beating him," an SFI activist said. Sudipto's father Pronab has lodged a murder complaint at Hastings police station.

"First we were pushed into the bus. Suddenly, the bus stopped at Maidan. When we refused to come out, it went near the Presidency Jail. There the policemen inside wielded lathis at us and even kicked us. In the melee, Sudipto fell," said Tanushree Mondal who was with Sudipto inside the bus.

But police had a different take on the death. "Police didn't resort to any lathicharge. In fact, the home guard Biswajit Mondal, who was escorting the students in the bus was attacked. This has been captured in the CCTV footage," special additional commissioner (Law and Order) Jawed Shamim said. Police said the slogan shouting students tried to scamper out of the bus together causing Sudipto's fatal fall.

Sudipto slipped into a coma and was shifted to SSKM hospital where the doctors failed to revive him after an hour-long battle. The body is to be handed over to the family on Wednesday morning after a post mortem and magisterial inquest.

The SFI dubbed it as a "cold blooded murder", claiming they had taken permission for the demonstration from the authorities. "The police mishandled the agitation and forgot that they were dealing with students," Bose said.

Sudipto's father, who retired from National Atlas two years ago and was widowed in February last year, was inconsolable. "What Can I say? What did he do to deserve this kind of death?" he said.


The Times of India, 3 April, 2013, http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/West-Bengal-student-leader-dies-in-police-custody-SFI-alleges-murder/articleshow/19351739.cms?


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