Calcutta High Court to take up PIL on mandatory I-card, CCTV, floodlight installation at Jadavpur University

NEW DELHI: The Calcutta High Court will take up a PIL seeking directions on the Jadavpur University for the installation of campus-wide CCTV cameras, mandatory student ID cards and installation of adequate floodlights, the Live Law has reported. The decision of installing CCTV, floodlights on the campus has been made after the death of a fresher allegedly due to ragging in the wake of widespread allegations about outsiders indulging in inappropriate behaviour in the campus area.

“CCTVs will be installed at certain strategic points, which will include several entry and exit gates. However, since the electrical engineering department will take a call on the issue of installation with the firm under contract, the entire exercise will take some time,” the Registrar Snehamanju Basu said earlier.

Also Read | JU report to UGC 'not satisfactory', Centre concerned over student's death: Dharmendra Pradhan

The university will release the identity cards. Identity proofs of others who enter the premises, the university said, will also be screened. Their names, addresses, purpose of visit to the university and the concerned university official whom they wish to meet will have to be clearly mentioned in the register kept with the security person. Vehicles entering the campus should bear stickers issued by the university.

13 persons comprising former and current students of JU, had been arrested so far for allegedly ragging and sexually harassing the teenaged Bengali honours student leading to his death after falling from a second-floor balcony of the main hostel building.