Jadavpur University has decided to issue show-cause notices to the students who have been found guilty in the university's probe into a complaint of ragging which allegedly led to the death of a student last year.

"The recommendation of the anti-ragging committee based on the decision of the anti-ragging squad at its meeting dated 1.12.2023, be and is hereby approved with the condition that all students/ex-students/outsiders implicated will be given an opportunity to defend themselves by responding to the anti-ragging committee against show-cause notices to be issued by Jadavpur University," the executive council, which met on Friday, stated in its resolution.

The council which is JU's highest-decision-making body, resolved if those who will be showcaused "ask for any available material, including their deposition in any form", this will be provided by the university "as per law".

The university will issue show-cause notices next week, said a JU official.

"In our previous meeting of the executive council, ... it was decided that those who have been implicated would be showcaused. The decision was confirmed at the council's meeting held on Friday," JU interim vice-chancellor Bhaskar Gupta told The Telegraph.

The university's decision to issue show-cause notices came 11 months after the death of the first-year student owing to an alleged ragging.

Senior students of the university allegedly threw the 17-year-old first-year student from the second-floor balcony of the main hostel on August 9 last year. He died early on August 10.

The report of the anti-ragging committee, says five residents of the main hostel who have been identified to have been "present" on the second floor of Block A/2 of the main hostel during the mishap "may be rusticated for four semesters and expelled from JU hostels permanently.

It also recommended that 25 hostel residents be rusticated for one semester and expelled from hostels permanently as they were “directly associated with abetment to ragging”.

A member of the executive council said Friday's meeting went past the midnight hours as many of the student representatives entered the meeting and insisted on producing the videography containing the depositions of those who have been implicated and the other residents of the hostel.

"We are opposed to sharing the videography because this is a classified document...," said Kazi Masum Akhter, a member of the council.

Manojit Mandal, another member of the council, said: "It was disappointing that the university took so long to act."

"After all these months the university has decided only on showcause," said the father of the deceased student.

Asked about the delay VC Gupta said: "We have to act per the law."