In the PIL filed at the bench of Chief Justice T.S. Sivagnanam and Justice Giranmay Bhattacharya, BJP’s state spokesman in West Bengal Rajarshi Lahiri has also mentioned about the recent death of a JU fresher, and claimed that the students having leanings to the LWE groups were behind that alleged ragging- related death.In his PIL, Lahiri has also accused the students with LWE leanings of regularly shouting Maoist and “Azadi slogans within the university campus. “Recently when the leader of the opposition in West Bengal Assembly Suvendu Adhikari reached the JU campus after the fresher’s death, his convoy was attacked by these students with LWE leanings. Then also they shouted the ‘Azadi’ slogans, he said.The division bench of the Chief Justice has admitted the PIL and the matter is likely to come up for hearing on Tuesday. This is the third PIL filed at the Calcutta High Court in the matter of the JU fresher’s death on August 10.First Calcutta High Court counsel Sayan Banerjee filed a PIL demanding implementation of the anti- ragging guidelines set by University Grants Commission in all state universities in West Bengal, including JU.Then Trinamool Congress Lok Sabha member and senior counsel of Calcutta High Court Kalyan Banerjee filed another PIL accusingtotal mismanagement on part of the JU authorities where the minimum requirement of installation of CCTVs within the university campus was not fulfilled.West Bengal Governor C.V. Ananda Bose, who by virtue of his chair in the chancellor of JU, was also made a party in the second PIL.--IANSsrc/dpb(Disclaimer: This post has been auto published from IANS news agency without any modification to the text and has not been reviewed by editor)
