Visva Bharati students allege house arrest ahead of Amit Shah visit Birbhum police chief denied issuing such orders
Four Visva Bharati students were reportedly put under house arrest by district police starting Sunday morning to stem what police sources termed “potential security breaches” by student leaders aimed at Union home minister Amit Shah’s road show, though the Birbhum police chief denied having issued such orders.
Undergraduate economics students Falguni Pan and Somenath Sow, the latter of whom is also an SFI leader, and research scholars and All India Democratic Students’ Organisation (AIDSO) leaders Amit Mondal and Beauty Saha were all identified and rounded up by police personnel between Saturday night and Sunday morning, and reportedly confined to their homes and student accommodations, with the police even providing them breakfast and lunch in order to keep them