BJP demands re-investigation of Assam student suicide case in Tripura
At a time when the country is irked with the suicide of a Dalit student, Rohith Vemula, in Hyderabad Central University, the BJP state committee has demanded re-investigation of the suicide of a Muslim student at Agartala Regional Institute of Pharmaceutical Science and Technology (RIPSAT) in 2013
By : migrator
Update: 2016-02-01 15:32 GMT
Agartala
According to report, Shahin Yusuf Khan, a bachelor student of RIPSAT, hailed from Barpeta district of Assam, had committed suicide in the hostel on December 31, 2013 allegedly protesting the humiliation and perpetration of Assistant Professor Dr Tarun Kanti Ghosh of Pharmacology.
BJP spokesperson Mrinal Kanti Deb today accused Chief Minister Manik Sarkar of saving the accused teacher despite lodging a case by the victim's family against Ghosh followed by the persuasion of Assam government based on the representation of Assam students.
The accused teacher Ghosh is a close relative of Sarkar and so the police did not do anything in the case," Mr Deb said.
"Finally, the police closed the investigation stating it as a case of unnatural death, which needs to be re-investigate to unearth the truth, he alleged.
Referring to the allegations of Shahin’s father Hanif Khan, Mr Deb said Ghosh had been demanding half of Shahin’s monthly scholarship but he refused. At a stage Ghosh threatened to mark him fail in the exam.
A day before the incident, Ghosh harassed him in the exam hall alleging of cheating, which he informed his father in detail over phone.
Allegedly, the victim’s father had also got a threat call from Agartala of dire consequences if they persuade the case further.
Later, the then health minister of Assam had been given a representation by students seeking investigation and accordingly, the minister wrote to Tripura DGP on January 21, 2014 for investigation of the case.
Even after three years of filing the case and request from the Assam government, Tripura police did not do anything rather attempted to destroy the evidences at the behest of the Chief Minister? Mr Deb further alleged.
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