Jadavpur University officials will meet on Monday to discuss how to provide security to the woman medical superintendent of the university if she has to attend cases in hostels.
Biswajit Pramanik, a first-year MTech student of computer science, was allegedly made to attend a kangaroo court at JU Main Hostel on Wednesday after hostel residents accused him of stealing a student’s laptop.
He fell sick when he was allegedly made to write an undertaking.
The medical superintendent of Jadavpur University, Mitali Deb, who had gone to the main hostel following an alert from the warden, said she had found Biswajit surrounded by fellow students who were allegedly forcing him to write an undertaking.
Realising something was amiss, the medical superintendent asked the other students to leave and checked Biswajit’s parameters. Deb found the student suffering from a panic attack and decided to shift him to the hospital immediately.
Deb complained that students tried to stop her multiple times while she was taking Biswajit out of the hostel on Wednesday night.
Also on Monday, the JU authorities will start issuing show-cause notices to the students who were found guilty, in an internal probe by the institution, of ragging a 17-year-old undergraduate student in the main hostel in August last year.
The student suffered fatal injuries after being allegedly thrown from a second-floor balcony of the hostel by senior students during the ragging.
JU registrar Snehamanju Basu told The Telegraph on Sunday: “We have decided, after going through a report handed by the medical superintendent, to hold a meeting on Monday. Following the meeting, we will also start issuing show-cause letters to those implicated by the anti-ragging committee in last year’s complaint of ragging.”
She said the meeting would discuss how to provide security to the medical superintendent during her visits to hostels.
Deb said on Sunday the university has offered to provide security to her following Wednesday night’s incident.
“The university is extremely annoyed with the fact that some students tried to stop me from discharging emergency duty. They (JU officials) have taken it very seriously. I have been told that security will be provided to me if a similar situation arises,” Deb said.
She said the university had offered to send her a vehicle on Wednesday. “But as my car and driver were ready, I refused the university vehicle to save time,” Deb said.
Students at the main hostel had allegedly delayed Deb from taking Biswajit to hospital by around 45 minutes.
“In her report, she (Deb) has mentioned everything. So at Monday’s meeting, we will discuss whether we could provide security or assistance to the medical superintendent whenever she goes to hostels,” the registrar said.
In a related development, a member of JU’s executive council wrote to the vice-chancellor and pro-VC on Sunday demanding immediate implementation of the council’s resolutions in regard to action against those found involved in the ragging of the 17-year-old student last year.
Manojit Mandal, the council member, wrote: “This issue is extremely important as the life of a young minor student has been lost. It assumes further significance as fresh new batches are taking admission.”
