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Outrage over death of sfi leader in Kolkata
Kolkata (IANS): Hundreds of activists took to the streets here on Wednesday accompanying the funeral procession of Students Federation of India...
Kolkata (IANS): Hundreds of activists took to the streets here on Wednesday accompanying the funeral procession of Students Federation of India (SFI) leader who died in police custody after participating in a protest.
The West Bengal Human Rights Commission has ordered a probe into his death. Sudipto Gupta, 24, a post-graduate student of the Rabindra Bharati University and West Bengal state committee member of the SFI, died on Tuesday at a state-run hospital amid allegations that a baton charge by police led to his fatal injury.
Police, however, said that the activist died after he crashed into a lamp post while being taken to jail.A Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee, who visited the hospital on Wednesday, said the incident was "unfortunate". She added that many activists of her party had been killed when they hit lamp posts while travelling by trains.
She said: "Any death is unfortunate. I shall not speak any more on this." She assured all help to the bereaved family.A Gupta's body, wrapped i
n a red flag of the Communist Party of India-Marxist, was carried in a flower-bedecked hearse to the Netaji Nagar College, where he was general secretary of the students' council. Grieving students and teachers offered floral tributes to the youth leader amid cries of "Lal Salaam".
The body was then taken to Gupta's residence at New Garia on the city's southern outskirts.A The incident occurred when hundreds of SFI activists were participating in a law violation programme to protest the state government's decision to stall students' union elections at all educational institutions for the next six months.
Taking suo motu cognizance of Gupta's death, the West Bengal Human Rights Commission Wednesday ordered the city police commissioner to probe the matter and submit a report within seven days.
Protest in Delhi New Delhi: The death of SFI leader led to a noisy protest in the national capital by college students, even as both the Left and the Congress condemned the incident.
Around 100 student union members of the Jawaharlal Nehru University gathered outside Banga Bhavan in central Delhi, shouted slogans and demanded action. A "Our demand is that all those involved in the incident should be punished," JNU Student's Union president Lenin said about Sudipto Gupta's alleged death in police custody in Kolkata.A He refuted the police's claim that he died after falling down from a bus.
