Students of Visva-Bharati University in West Bengal, who were raising demonstrations over chopping trees, were thrashed, allegedly by TMC workers.
The incident took place when students were protesting in Shyambati area near Shantiniketan. According to The Telegraph, the students who were assaulted included two foreign students – one from Poland and the other from Canada.
The students lodged a police complaint against three local TMC leaders, including Kazi Nurul Hoda, president of the party’s Ruppur anchal committee.
Among those beaten up was Lavrenty Repin, a Canadian studying English literature at Visva-Bharati. “I went there with other students to protest the felling of the tree,” Repin said from his bed at Pearson Memorial Hospital on Friday evening, while speaking to The Telegraph.
Kamil Siedczynski from Poland, who is doing a diploma course in Bengali, managed to escape the assault. “I was standing at a distance but I saw the men beating up my fellow students,” he said.
Trinamul leader Hoda denied the assault. “We did not beat up anyone. The protesters stopped the (felling) for two hours and we just removed them.”
District police chief Sudheer Kumar said the police managed to control the situation.
