Author: A Staff Reporter
Publication: The Telegraph
Date: September 01, 2004
URL: http://www.telegraphindia.com/1040901/asp/calcutta/story_3701042.asp
A section of first-year medical
students of R.G. Kar Medical College was beaten up and forced to go without
dinner at the Maniktala hostel on Monday night after a clash with SFI members.
Around 100 freshers refused to pay
Rs 300 each as "development fees", after which the miscreants beat them
up.
The Democratic Students' Organisation
(DSO) has claimed the assaulted students are its sympathisers.
Around 10.30 pm, police from Amherst
Street thana arrived following the students' complaint, but were asked
to leave by hostel superintendent Apurba Lal Sarkar, who claimed that things
"had returned to normal".
The violence began soon after. On
Tuesday afternoon, a police picket was set up on campus. The DSO demonstrated
outside Sarkar's office, as the incident had occurred in his presence,
it claimed.
