Presidency students hold sit-in, prevent faculty to leave
A section of students of the Presidency University on Tuesday evening launched a sit-in in the main varsity building preventing the six-member inquiry committee, formed to probe the incident of locking the main gate of varsity campus on September 10, to leave.
The inquiry committee members were not prevented from moving within the campus by the agitating students who wanted to know on what basis the committee had earlier recommended the suspension of three students for locking the campus, one of the agitating students Ujan told PTI.
"We will continue the sit-in outside the chamber of EC members indefinitely unless there is satisfactory reply on the part of the inquiry panel on what basis they had identified the three students as trouble makers on September 10 and recommended their suspension ... We will not prevent them from leaving the campus which they can only do by physically removing us," he said.
The sit-in began even as the indefinite fast by six students of ...