Kolkata: The father of SFI leader Sudipto Gupta on Tuesday moved the Calcutta High Court seeking a CBI probe into the death of his son, saying that a fair investigation was not possible by any state agency.
The petition by Pranab Kumar Gupta also appealed that the investigation into the death of Sudipto be monitored by the court, his counsels Bikash Bhattacharya and Rabishankar Chattopadhyay said.
Stating that only the driver of the bus, from which Sudipto had allegedly fallen while being taken to Presidency jail, had been arrested, the father claimed that the investigation had not proceeded further.
The police had maintained that Sudipto, a MA student of Rabindra Bharati University, was hanging from the foot-board of the bus when his head hit a lamp post while being taken to jail after a law violation programme by SFI on April 2....
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07:21 PM, Apr 30, 2013
New Delhi: All the six activists of the Students Federation of India (SFI), who were arrested on Monday for allegedly heckling West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee and state Finance Minister Amit Mitra outside the Planning Commission office in Delhi earlier in April, have been granted bail on Rs 5000 personal bong and surety. Those arrested included SFI General Secretary Ritabrata Bandhopadhyay, Delhi CPI(M) Secretary PMS Grewal, Delhi State Committee...
05:08 PM, Apr 22, 2013
New Delhi: The Delhi Police on Monday arrested the General Secretary of Students Federation of India (SFI) and five others in connection with the heckling incident during which West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee and state Finance Minister Amit Mitra were attacked by suspected SFI activists in Delhi as they tried to enter the Planning Commission building. The Trinamool Congress on Monday warned that it will not allow Parliament to...
11:57 AM, Apr 22, 2013
New Delhi: The Students Federation of India (SFI) on Wednesday apologised for the attack on West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee and Finance Minister Amit Mitra in New Delhi earlier this month. The duo were heckled by SFI activists as they made their way to the Planning Commission building in the capital. Mitra suffered injuries during the melee and had to be hospitalised later on. SFI General Secretary Ritabrata Banerjee,...
07:45 PM, Apr 17, 2013
Kolkata/Siliguri: Stoking controversy, a leader of CPI(M) student wing who was arrested after a clash with ruling Trinamool Congress activists, has been chained to his bed at a state-run hospital in judicial custody. The first year student, Santosh Sahani, of SFI was arrested on April 10 after a clash between Trinamool Congress and Left supporters in Siliguri. The chain was later removed following an uproar with activists alleging violation of...
11:23 PM, Apr 16, 2013
Kolkata: Efforts were being made to downplay the 'attack' on Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee and finance minister Amit Mitra by projecting the Presidency incident, the Trinamool Congress claimed on Saturday and reiterated the demand for an impartial inquiry into the vandalism. Stating that the party had condemned both the April 9 'attack' on Banerjee and the finance minister and the vandalism at Presidency University a day after, TMC Secretary General...
06:51 PM, Apr 13, 2013
New Delhi: 3:20 pm: Even as the TMC and the Left leaders appealed for calm, there were reports of violence. TMC and CPM supporters clashed in the Presidency University in Kolkata and a few students were reportedly injured in the clashed. TMC supporters reportedly ransacked labs at the Presidency University. 2:10 pm: Trinamool Congress leader Derek O'Brien has called the attack on Mamata Banerjee and Amit Mitra a 'pre-planned' one....
10:15 AM, Apr 10, 2013
Kolkata: West Bengal's politics of violence reached the national capital on Tuesday as Students Federation of India activists manhandled State Finance Minster Amit Mitra outside the Planning Commission. While West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee was angered by the incident, Trinamool Congress workers went on a rampage in Kolkata and plan a statewide protest on Wednesday even as the CPM has condemned the violence of its student affiliate body. Mamata...
08:07 AM, Apr 10, 2013
West Bengal Finance Minister Amit Mitra was heckled by activists of Students Federation of India (SFI) in Delhi on Tuesday as he tried to enter the Yojna Bhawan. ...
06:24 PM, Apr 09, 2013
New Delhi: West Bengal Finance Minister Amit Mitra was heckled by activists of Students Federation of India (SFI) in Delhi on Tuesday as he tried to enter the Yojna Bhawan. SFI activists shouted slogans against him and pushed him while policemen tried to pull him out of the crowd. Upset with the protests, West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee, who had accompanied Mitra, vented her ire by blaming the Left...
04:08 PM, Apr 09, 2013
Kolkata: Academicians from across the country on Saturday expressed "horror" at the "brutal" police assault on students leading to the death of SFI leader Sudipta Gupta in police custody and demanded an "impartial" probe into the incident. In a statement, 45 educationists from leading institutes like Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU), Punjab University and Viswa Bharati University condemned the "unprovoked singular attack" on a "peaceful" students demonstration. The scholars said they...
01:59 AM, Apr 07, 2013
Kolkata: Family members of Students Federation of India (SFI) leader Sudipto Gupta on Friday expressed disgust over West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee dubbing his death in police custody as a "petty" and "small" matter, and alleged he was "murdered" by police. "This is murder. The bus driver has reportedly said that he (Gupta) was forced out of the vehicle and beaten up. There were so many injury marks on...
04:30 AM, Apr 06, 2013
Kolkata: The family of SFI activist Sudipto Gupta is expected to meet West Bengal Governor on Friday. Sudipto was killed after being allegedly beaten up by police during a crackdown on a SFI protest earlier this week. Citing dissatisfaction with police investigations, his family has demanded a CBI probe. The police, however, insists that Sudipto died after hitting a lamp post. To back up their claims, the Kolkata Police on...
05:17 PM, Apr 05, 2013
Kolkata: The Kolkata Police on Thursday stated that the final post-mortem report of SFI activist Sudipto Gupta was yet to come out and that the initial report had shown that the 23-year-old student died due to a head injury inflicted by hitting a stationary object and then hitting a rough structure after that. The police have, since the beginning, been alleging that Gupta died after hitting a lamp post and...
04:35 PM, Apr 04, 2013
Kolkata: Kolkata is mourning the death of Students Federation of India activist Sudipto Gupta due to alleged police brutality. There was a partial shutdown in the city on Thursday after the bandh called by the SFI. Since Thursday morning, there were roadblocks in various places across the city. A Congress student delegation will meet the West Bengal Governor at 4 pm on Thursday to demand a judicial probe into Sudipto's...
01:57 PM, Apr 04, 2013
Kolkata: Kolkata is bracing for roadblocks and traffic jams after a bandh call by the Left-wing Students Federation of India (SFI) in protest against the death of SFI activist Sudipto Gupta. The students will be carrying out protests out at Hazra Modh, which is close to Chief Minister's house. A bandh has also been called in Garia and Tollygunge areas of Kolkata. The West Bengal Human Rights Commission report will...
08:13 AM, Apr 04, 2013
There have been massive protests over the death of 23-year-old Students Federation of India activist Sudipto Gupta in Kolkata. Not just in Kolkata, protests are also being staged in Chennai by SFI activists. The Mamata Banerjee government in West Bengal has also come under attack from the protesters as well as the Left Front. ...
11:59 PM, Apr 03, 2013
Apart from the SFI, prominent Left leaders, including former CM Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee, paid homage to Sudipto Gupta, who died allegedly in police crackdown. ...
11:17 PM, Apr 03, 2013
After the death of a student activist allegedly due to a police baton charge, the Congress on Wednesday said the era of students getting killed by police was back to haunt West Bengal. ...
05:31 PM, Apr 03, 2013
Protesters took to the streets in New Delhi and Chennai after a Students Federation of India activist Sudipto Gupta was killed in Kolkata allegedly by the police during a crackdown in the city on Wednesday. The police tried to stop the demonstrators as they chanted slogans and marched with Gupta's posters. ...
05:05 PM, Apr 03, 2013
