Calcutta HC sets aside rustication of Visva-Bharati students
The Hindu
‘Educational institutions are being misused as breeding grounds by political parties’
The Calcutta High Court on September 15 set aside the rustication of three Visva-Bharati students who were punished for taking part in a demonstration in January 2020, and came down heavily on “outsiders and political parties” for what it called the misuse of educational institutions.
The three students — Somnath Sow and Falguni Pan, of Economics; and Rupa Chakraborty of Hindustani classical music — on grounds of “gross indiscipline and misconduct” but their by the court last week. September 15th’s order would be seen as a victory for them and for the detractors of the Vice-Chancellor, Prof. Bidyut Chakrabarty.
“…in the interest of and for the ends of justice, as a special case, without creating any precedent, the orders of rustication are set aside. This order is passed in the very peculiar facts and circumstances of the case on the undertaking of the three students that there shall be peace and order in the University henceforth,” Justice Rajasekhar Mantha said in his order.