Calcutta HC takes major action after Kolkata gang rape case, directs all Bengal colleges and universities to lock…

Kolkata: The Calcutta High Court on Thursday directed the West Bengal Higher Education Department to assemble sure that that the union rooms, moreover in overall in most cases known as overall rooms, in all colleges and universities in the teach stay locked till the time the college students’ union elections in these institutes had been performed and the outcomes declared.

A division bench of Justice Soumen Sen and Justice Smita Das gave this whine on a petition looking out for to scheme the honor of the court that unofficial pupil unions allegedly lunge by close associates of the ruling Trinamool Congress had been working several colleges and universities in the teach, the attach college students’ union elections had been pending for years.

Within the petition, the petitioner, suggest Sayan Banerjee, moreover alleged that the operators of these unofficial unions had been working from the union rooms, thus making these rooms hubs of antisocial activities.

After a detailed listening to on the matter on Thursday, the division bench ordered that the union rooms in all colleges and universities would stay locked till the time the college students’ union elections in these institutes had been performed and the outcomes had been declared. It moreover directed the teach authorities to clarify its stand on the pending college students’ union elections by filing an affidavit in the matter in the next two weeks. The following listening to on the matter may be on July 17.

The route from the Calcutta High Court in the matter is terribly valuable pondering that the union room or overall room at South Calcutta Rules College (New Campus) at Kasba in South Kolkata grew to change into valuable in the case of the rape of a pupil of that faculty contained in the college campus closing week.

The investigation has published that the victim modified into once called by the three accused – Monojit Mishra, Jaib Ahmed, and Pramit Mukhopadhyay – to the general room contained in the campus. After some initial conversations contained in the general room, the victim modified into once dragged from there to the adjacent guard room moreover contained in the campus by the three accused and she modified into once raped there.

The identical division bench of Justice Sen and Justice Das on Thursday itself directed Kolkata Police to submit the development document on the investigation and the case diary in the matter of the legislation college pupil gang-rape to the court contained in the next seven days.