JU clash: West Bengal Governor seeks report from VC
Tripathy is also the Chancellor of the university.
Das said the university has lodged an FIR against four outsiders who had entered the university on Friday.
"We have lodged FIR in Jadavpur Police Station against four outsiders. Chancellor of JU and WB Governor Keshari Nath Tripathi asked me today about the incident over telephone. He also sought for a report. We will send him the report where we will describe the entire incident," he said.
He said the auditorium where the screening of the film was scheduled is run by alumni association and the university authority have no control over its booking.
The JU VC told IBNS: "Triguna Sen auditorium was hired for the screening. Jadavpur University's alumni association runs this auditorium and give it on rent. JU authority does not have any control over the booking of the hall (Triguna Sen auditorium). We even don't know the charges of the auditorium."
Violence erupted over the screening of a film as the students of the ultra-left union clashed with the BJP's student wing Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad (ABVP) and held four of those belonging to saffron brigade hostage accusing them of molestation.
BJP workers, led by party's Roopa Ganguly, gathered at the campus gate and demanded that the four party workers be handed over to them.
The ruckus happened just hours after a screening of director Vivek Agnihotri's "Buddha In A Traffic Jam" at the university was abandoned midway after being interrupted several times. The screening was organised by a group allegedly backed by the ABVP.
The leftist students said the screening of the film was held despite the university refusing permission for the same.
Following the screening, a few women students complained of molestation by some "outsiders," after which a group of students apprehended four men, and handed them over to the Vice Chancellor.
The four were later handed over to the police by University authorities. An FIR has been filed against the four alleged molesters by university officials.
Nobody has been arrested so far.
Buddha in a Traffic Jam is an autobiographical film based on its writer & director Vivek Agnihotri's life. The film has a cast of Arunoday Singh, Anupam Kher, Pallavi Joshi, Mahi Gill and Anchal Dwivedi.
The student protesters say they oppose the film's portrayal of nationalism. There have been similar protests against the film at Delhi's Jawaharlal Nehru University, amid a raging debate over nationalism.
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