Kolkata Police Commissioner Vineet Goyal on Saturday questioned some of the past and present students of Jadavpur University arrested in connection with the recent death of a first-year student, officials said.Goyal spoke to a former student, the first to be arrested in this case, and three students at Lalbazar, the city police headquarters, they said. The first accused, who did his MSc in mathematics in 2022, was questioned about the last moments before the death of the teen, officials said.
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On Friday, police reconstructed the crime scene to understand what exactly happened in the hostel on the night of August 9, when the first-year student fell from a balcony after being allegedly mentally tortured and sexually harassed.
Meanwhile, three students – Computer Science student Satyabrata Roy, former student of the Chemistry Department Sheikh Nasim Akhtar, and former student of the Mathematics Department Himangshu Karmakar – arrested on Friday night were sent to 12-day police custody on Saturday. So far, 12 people have been arrested in the case.
Amid this, members of the anti-ragging committee of the university visited the JU Main Hostel where the student as part of its investigation into the incident. The first-year student died on August 10 after falling from the balcony of his hostel room a day before.
