In a suo motu action, Kolkata Police on Sunday registered an FIR against a student body, PDSF, over graffiti and posters on the Jadavpur University campus, saying they were intended to incite hatred and disrupt public peace.
The graffiti and posters featured slogans such as “Azad Kashmir,” “Free Palestine,” and “Fascism Must Burn”, said police.
The police have registered the FIR against supporters of PDSF (Progressive Democratic Students Federation) but have not named any individuals. Police also hinted that they may summon individuals for questioning.
DCP (Jadavpur) Bidisha Kalita Dasgupta said the FIR has been filed under sections 152 and 61(2) of the BNS. “These charges relate to endangering India’s sovereignty and criminal conspiracy,” Dasgupta added. The move comes over a week after the incident in which two students were injured after the car of State Education Minister Bratya Basu grazed past them during a protest.
Earlier Monday, tensions ran high on the campus as Om Prakash Mishra, a professor named in the FIR along with minister Bratya Basu for the March 1 violence, returned to the campus amid a huge deployment of plain-clothed policemen. While the CPI(M)-backed SFI protested the deployment of police force on the campus, the TMC’s Chhatra Parishad welcomed the move.