The household and a classmate have alleged that the 18-year-old was a sufferer of ragging.

Kolkata:

The pupil who died after falling from the second flooring of a hostel in Kolkata’s Jadavpur University had known as his mom barely an hour earlier than the incident and instructed her he was scared. He had pleaded together with his mom, who lives in a city 100 km away, to “come fast” and stated he had heaps to inform her. 

The household and a classmate have alleged that the 18-year-old was a sufferer of ragging. 

Swapnadip Kundu was a first-year undergraduate pupil of Bengali (Honours) and had fallen from the balcony of the principle hostel constructing within the college round 11.45 pm on Wednesday. He was taken to a hospital, the place he was declared lifeless at 4.30 am on Thursday. 

“Swapnadip spoke to his mother on Wednesday evening. He told her he was not feeling good and was feeling scared. His mother asked him what had happened. He said, ‘You please come fast. I have lots of things to tell you’. Then she called him back, but the phone kept ringing and he did not pick up. About an hour later, his parents got a call asking them to go to Kolkata as their son had suffered a fall,” stated Swapnadip’s uncle, Arup Kundu

“The body was completely covered but the doctor showed me a piece of paper which indicated injury marks on his body. How does this happen if it was not ragging,” Mr Kundu requested. 

Swapnadip’s father, Ramprasad Kundu. has complained to the police saying a number of the boarders of the hostel are accountable for his son’s loss of life. A Facebook put up by one in every of Swapnadip’s classmates, Arpan Majhi, additionally pointed to ragging by “some seniors” and stated he had misplaced his classmate due to a couple of of them, a report by information company PTI stated. 

The police haven’t commented on the investigation and Jadavpur University has additionally remained tight-lipped.  West Bengal Governor CV Ananda Bose, nonetheless, met the scholar’s mother and father on the college campus on Thursday. He assured them of stern motion in opposition to these accountable and stated that the household would get justice. 

Residents of the Kundus’ hometown, Bogula in Nadia district, held a protest right now, demanding a correct investigation into Swapandip’s loss of life and strict motion in opposition to the individuals accountable for it. 

In October final 12 months, IIT Kharagpur pupil Faizan Ahmed was discovered lifeless in his hostel room. While it was handed off as a case of suicide, the household, which is from Assam, had moved the Calcutta High Court claiming it was a case of ragging and homicide. 

A second autopsy was completed this 12 months after exhuming the physique on the orders of the excessive court docket. The post-mortem report referred to accidents sustained earlier than loss of life and stated they have been homicidal in nature. His household had instructed the court docket that he was pushed over the sting by ragging and that his complaints had gone unheard by IIT-Kharagpur’s administration.