Case Has Become Multi-State, Fit For CBI, NIA: Suvendu Adhikari On Jadavpur University Student Death

BJP leader Suvendu Adhikari said that the case pertaining to the death of a student at Jadavpur University has now become multi-state and is fit for the CBI and NIA.

BJP leader Suvedu Adhikari ( Image Source :PTI )

Bharatiya Janata Party leader Suvendu Adhikari said on Thursday that the case pertaining to the death of a student at Jadavpur University has now become multi-state and is fit for the Central Bureau of Investigation and the National Investigation Agency. He further stated that a boy from Kashmir was arrested and asked about his residential certificate status. "A boy from Kashmir was arrested today. Who issued a residential certificate to him? How did he get the OBC A certificate?... The case has now become multi-state so it's a fit case for CBI and NIA," Adhikari said, as quoted by ANI. 

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The five-member delegation, which also had Women and Child Development Minister Shashi Panja and MoS for Health Chandrima Bhattacharya, went to Bagula in Nadia district and met the parents of the deceased boy. His family alleged that he was a victim of ragging.

Meanwhile, six more former and current students of Jadavpur University were arrested in the case and were remanded to police custody by a city court on Wednesday, news agency PTI reported. This takes the total number of apprehended persons in this case to nine.

On Wednesday, a delegation of the ruling Trinamool Congress led by state Education Minister Bratya Basu met the family of the first-year Jadavpur University student who died last week. The five-member delegation, which also had Women and Child Development Minister Shashi Panja and MoS for Health Chandrima Bhattacharya, went to Bagula in Nadia district and met the parents of the deceased boy.

"What has happened is extremely unfortunate. Police have already arrested a few people and those who are involved in it must be punished," Basu told reporters, as quoted by PTI.

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