Kolkata: West Bengal Human Rights Commission
Thursday initiated its probe in the April 10 Presidency University vandalism.
Amol Mukhopadhyay, former principal of
Presidency University, who was asked by the Commission to conduct an
independent inquiry and submit a report within two weeks, recorded the
statement the registrar and the vice-chancellor’s statement here on Thursday.
Mukkhopadyay, along with the Commission’s
superintendent of police Annappa had surveyed the campus earlier on April 16 and asked for a list of
eye-witnesses and a room.
According to the Registrar of the
University, Pradip Sarkar, there were around 35 people in the lists of eye
witnesses given to the commission.
The two lists of eye witnesses include
teachers, students and non-teaching staffs who were present at the main building
as well as at the Baker building.
“I was asked to say what I had seen that
day, and about my telephone calls to the police,” he said.
Taking suo motu cognisance of the
vandalism at the prestigious Presidency University, the West Bengal Human Rights
Commission on April 11 had asked city police to probe the matter.
Armed with sticks and rods, alleged
Trinamool Congress Chhatra Parishad members stormed the Presidency University
campus on April 10. They assaulted students, including women, and vandalised
the famous physics department at the varsity.
They ransacked the century-old Baker
Building that houses the physics laboratory where eminent scientists like
Jagadish Chandra Bose, Satyendra Nath Bose and Meghnad Saha conducted
researches.
The vandalism was a part of a series of
state wide retaliatory attacks in the wake of the heckling of Trinamool supremo
and West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee and one of her ministers in New
Delhi, by a group on April 9.
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