Kolkata’s iconic Jadavpur University is once again in the midst of a controversy with the dean of students Dr Subinoy Chakraborty suddenly tendering his resignation on Sunday morning.
Chakraborty, as the dean of students, was heading the internal committee of JU probing the ragging-related death of a fresher of the university on August 10.
Questions are being raised about the resignation when the internal committee which is in the middle of the probe process has already admitted that death of the fresher student was a fallout of the immense psychological ragging and harassment by a section of the senior students before his death.
Although Chakraborty has refrained from giving any reaction to the media on what prompted him to resign from this prestigious chair of this iconic university, JU insiders said that in his resignation letter the dean of students has attributed personal reasons behind the decision.
His resignation also coincides with the appointment of Dr Buddhadeb Sau, a faculty member with the mathematics department of JU, as the interim vice-chancellor of the university by Governor C.V. Ananda Bose, who virtue of his chair, is also the chancellor of JU.
JU insiders admit that the resignation of the dean of students at this juncture had posed great uncertainty for the administrative activities of the university which ultimately got its interim vice- chancellor after operating in a headless state for quite some time for now.
Besides not having a permanent vice-chancellor for quite some time, one of the two posts of pro-vice-chancellors of JU is also lying vacant for quite some time. Already 12 individuals, a combination of present and former students of JU have been arrested in this connection.
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