Delhi police, on Wednesday, detained an ex-JU pupil, who’s at the moment pursuing PhD in Spain, alleging ‘involvement’ in assault on TMC minister Bratya Basu six months in the past.
A former pupil of Jadavpur College, Hindol Mazumdar was detained following a lookout round issued towards him for his alleged involvement within the assault on the convoy of schooling minister Bratya Basu on the Jadavpur College campus in Kolkata in March this yr.
The Delhi Police detained him at 10.30am upon his arrival. Kolkata Police are getting ready to hunt a transit remand to carry the PhD scholar to Kolkata, as per a number of stories.
Hindol’s father, Chandan Majumdar mentioned he was “very suprised” as each dad and mom weren’t conscious “that there was a lookout discover” towards the previous JU pupil, reported Information 18.
What occurred in March?
On March 1, Saturday, West Bengal Schooling minister Bratya Basu was allegedly injured after protests demanding to declare college students union election dates within the state turned violent.
Basu was surrounded by over round 100 college students whereas getting back from the Jadavpur College when he tried to talk to them after attending the annual basic assembly of West Bengal Faculty and College Professors Affiliation(WBCUPA), reported PTI.
The protests was held by the members of CPI(M) college students wing SFI. In the course of the protest, one SFI chief mentioned that two left pupil activists have been additionally injured after the vehicles in Basu’s convoy ran over their ankles they usually needed to be admitted to hospital in critical situation.
Was Hindol Mazumdar concerned within the protest?
Hindol’s father and a retired JU professor, Chandan Majumdar, mentioned his son has been dwelling in Spain since November 2023. He’s a predoctoral researcher at Atrys, pursuing a doctorate in Biomedicine and Medical Science on the College of Granada.
Hindol Mazumdar was a pupil in pharmaceutical know-how at JU.
He had reportedly been served notices earlier than a lookout discover was issued towards him on March 16. He had despatched an e-mail that day, stating he had been dwelling in Spain since November 2023, and subsequently couldn’t have been current on the college on the day of the assault.
What do police say?
In keeping with police, Hindol and two others dwelling overseas financed these behind the assault, pointing to “incriminating WhatsApp chats and social media posts” as proof, reported Indian Categorical.
Majumdar questioned the claims made on the idea of such proof, stating, “If visas at the moment are being determined based mostly on social media posts, then what can we are saying?”

