Meanwhile, Hindu activist and former Oxford University Student Union President, Rashmi Samant has also received a notice from the West Bengal Police for talking about the Taliban-style flogging of a woman.
The parents of Faizan Ahmed were dismayed by the investigation carried out by Kharagpur police. They accused the IIT-Kharagpur authorities of trying to pass their son's untimely death as a 'suicide.'
Reacting to Arjun Singh's post on counting agents' arrest by West Bengal Police, BJP's IT Cell chief Amit Malviya said, "Mamata Banerjee has reduced West Bengal to a police state. Widespread reports of intimidation and unlawful arrest of BJP’s counting agents coming from across Bengal. But TMC won’t be able to stop us. People of Bengal are with the BJP."
The TMC has accused BJP candidate Rekha Patra and party leader Archana Majumdar of leading the group of women, who thrashed the unnamed Trinamool Congress worker.
The Superintendent of Police (Purba Medinipur) Soumyadip Bhattacharya has made it clear that the NIA team first came to the Bhupatinagar police station while Mamata Banerjee alleged that the central agency officials did not bother to inform the local police.
OpIndia has accessed the FIR filed by the Shantineketan police, wherein the victims have accused the faculty member of soliciting sexual favours in exchange for good marks in examinations.
Soon after the detention of the state president of the BJP's youth wing, the party's IT cell head Amit Malviya came down heavily on the West Bengal government over the incident.
TMC leader Derek O'Brien claimed that by the time West Bengal Police was given freedom, it took two days to arrest the culprit. However, Calcutta HC had clarified that there was never any 'stay' on his arrest