The Calcutta High Court has set aside an order passed by a Special Court under the Atrocity Act, 1st Court, Suri, calling for the personal appearance of former Visva Bharati University Vice-Chancellor.
The three-km road connecting Post Office More with Sriniketan, was taken over by the Public Works Department of the state government from the university in 2020
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In April, the university had issued an eviction notice asking Sen, a Nobel laureate himself, to vacate 13 decimals (0.13 acre) of the 1.38 acres of his ancestral home, 'Pratichi', located on the university campus in Santiniketan of Birbhum district, claiming the parcel belonged to the institution and that he was occupying it illegally.
West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Monday stood by Nobel laureate economist Amartya Sen after Visva Bharati University Vice Chancellor Bidyut Chakraborty accused him of unauthorised possession of university land at .