Kolkata: The Police here has arrested two more students in death of an 18-year-old Jadavpur University student, who fell from the balcony of a university campus on Wednesday. According to police sources, the two were present on the spot when the ragging with the first-year students was taking place. Earlier, the police had arrested an ex-student of the university - Sourabh Chowdhury. On Saturday, he was remanded to police custody until August 22. Chowdhury, who did his MSc in Mathematics in 2022, was living in the hostel illegally.
The arrested students identified as Deepsekhar Dutta, 19, and Manotosh Ghosh, 20, harassed the deceased, Swapnodip Kundu, mentally at the behest of prime accused Sourav Chowdhury, a former student of Jadavpur University, police sources said.
According to various reports, Preliminary investigation suggested that the victim was subjected to intense ragging, sources in the police said adding that they are probing a sexual harassment angle.
Ragging turns torturous
According to various reports on social media, students often face lewd remarks and are forced to perform sexual acts, like stripping, during ragging inside the campus.
Kundu, a first-year undergraduate student of Bengali (Honours), fell from the balcony of the main hostel building in the university around 11:45 pm on August 9. He was taken to a hospital, where he died at 4:30 am on Thursday.
"Swapnodip spoke to his mother on Wednesday evening and told her he was not feeling good and was scared. His mother asked him what had happened, and he said, "You please come fast. I have lots of things to tell you." When she called him back, the calls went unanswered. About an hour later, his parents got a call asking them to come to Kolkata as their son had suffered a fall," the teen's uncle, Arup Kundu, said.
