Trinamool leaders caught on camera at the Presidency University gate.
Kolkata:
Five persons have been arrested for Wednesday's vandalism at Presidency University, which its students blame the Trinamool Congress for.
The Trinamool Congress denies its men ransacked the college and beat up students, but one of its councillors, Partha Basu, and other activists were filmed at the university gates at the time the rampaging mob was trying to break in.
The Trinamool Congress has slapped cases against two Presidency students. One case was filed by party leader Tathagata Saha, who the students allege was inside the campus.
Presidency students say a group of at least 100 people, carrying weapons and Trinamool flags, thrashed students and teachers, and the police did not intervene. A young girl said women students were threatened they would be raped.
The 100-year-old Baker Laboratory at the prestigious college was also destroyed.
"They started beating up whichever students they found, they chased girls, and made obscene remarks. The four policemen here took no action. The staff went down to protect students," said the university's Vice Chancellor Malabika Sarkar to NDTV.
A day before the violence, Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee and her finance minister were heckled in New Delhi by student activists of the Left, who were protesting against the death of their young colleague in police custody in Kolkata.
Governor MK Narayanan described the attack on the Chief Minister as a "pre-meditated assault", prompting the CPM to lodge a protest with the President that the remark does not befit a person occupying a constitutional post.
The Trinamool Congress denies its men ransacked the college and beat up students, but one of its councillors, Partha Basu, and other activists were filmed at the university gates at the time the rampaging mob was trying to break in.
The Trinamool Congress has slapped cases against two Presidency students. One case was filed by party leader Tathagata Saha, who the students allege was inside the campus.
Presidency students say a group of at least 100 people, carrying weapons and Trinamool flags, thrashed students and teachers, and the police did not intervene. A young girl said women students were threatened they would be raped.
The 100-year-old Baker Laboratory at the prestigious college was also destroyed.
"They started beating up whichever students they found, they chased girls, and made obscene remarks. The four policemen here took no action. The staff went down to protect students," said the university's Vice Chancellor Malabika Sarkar to NDTV.
A day before the violence, Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee and her finance minister were heckled in New Delhi by student activists of the Left, who were protesting against the death of their young colleague in police custody in Kolkata.
Governor MK Narayanan described the attack on the Chief Minister as a "pre-meditated assault", prompting the CPM to lodge a protest with the President that the remark does not befit a person occupying a constitutional post.
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