Kolkata: For the last nine days, the engineering faculty of Jadavpur University is closed. Students are boycotting classes in protest against police action on nine students.
Arrest warrants have been issued against nine students for allegedly beating up policemen during a hunger strike in June.
Angered by the move, the engineering faculty union, which is called Fetsu, called for an indefinite boycott of classes. Fetsu blames the authorities for the situation and claims it has support from all sections of students.
"Students are supporting this movement, they saw what happened that night and they are now seeing that the cases are simply ridiculous," Parag Banerjee, assistant general secretary, Fetsu, said.
The university authorities have requested the union to call off the strike and have also written a couple of letters to the police, but that?s about all they have done.
"Me along with the vice-chancellor have requested the students? representatives to stop the boycott so that academic activities can continue but they are not calling it off," Rajat Bandyopadhyay, registrar, Jadavpur University, said.
The strife intensified when students of the engineering faculty decided to boycott examinations starting early next month.
While the agitating students have flatly refused to budge and blame the university authorities for the ongoing impasse within the campus, authorities have passed the buck to the students.
Caught between the two, however, are those students who have kept their fingers crossed for their upcoming semester exams early next month.
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