Jadavpur University has decided to debar (expel) 35 students from the main hostel because they have been found guilty of ragging a first-year student who died last month, said a JU official.
The decision was taken at a meeting of the university’s executive council that continued past 9pm on Tuesday. The report of an internal committee that probed the first-year student’s death was tabled at the meeting.
“As of now, it has been decided that 35 students will be debarred from the hostel based on their involvement in ragging. Since it was decided in a meeting of the anti-ragging committee held on September 15 that the report would also be sent to the anti-ragging squad, detailed penal measures would be announced after the squad gives its views,” the official said.
Calls and text messages to the university’s officiating VC Buddhadeb Sau and registrar Snehamanju Basu failed to yield any response.
Partha Pratim Roy, the general secretary of JU teachers’ union, said: “We demanded that the report be tabled at a meeting of the university’s highest decision-making body. Let the council now decide how far they want to act on the report.”
The squad had decided on August 13 that they would not probe the death as the internal committee had been formed.