India
West Bengal forms 6-member SIT for SRFTI violence
The Hindu··30 Sept
The West Bengal government on September 30 constituted a six-member Special Intensive Team to probe September 27 violence at Satyajit Ray Film and Television Institute in Kolkata. Additional Commissioner of Kolkata Police Kunal Agrawal heads the team. Its first report is due by October 1. Kolkata police have registered three FIRs after clashes between ABGP members and SRFTI students.
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What It Means For You
- The SIT's October 1 first report will set the near-term official account of injuries and blame.
- Three FIRs already frame complaints from SRFTI's film dean, ABGP's West Bengal head, and a local police officer.
- Students have asked how a non-film group booked the main campus auditorium for the event.
What's Happening
- Violence erupted on September 27 when ABGP members holding a paid campus event clashed with students.
- ABGP said students disrupted proceedings and tore posters; both sides blame each other.
- BJP leaders have blamed students and called protesters Dimagi Naxal.
How the campus clash unfolded
- Akhil Bharatiya Grahak Panchayat is described as a right-wing consumer group.
- ABGP members said they booked the auditorium on payment of fees.
- Several students were injured in the campus violence, the report states.
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