Jadavpur University Death Case Accused In Custody Till August 22

Sourabh Chowdhury has been sent to police custody till August 22 in connection with Jadavpur University student death case on Saturday.

He was produced before Alipore Court earlier today.

Sourabh Chowdhury, an ex-student of Jadavpur University, is an accused in the case of the student’s death, where a 1st-year student died after he allegedly fell from the balcony of the university hostel.

Chowdhury was arrested on Friday.

Swarnodip Kundu, a Bengali Department 1st-year student, hailed from Nadia district died on Thursday after allegedly falling from the balcony of the university’s hostel on Wednesday night.

Previously on Thursday, West Bengal Governor CV Ananda Bose visited the hostel and stated that strong action will be taken and justice will be served.

While talking to the media after visiting the university hostel, Governor stated, “I went to the hostel, I discussed with the students… and also the teachers, they want justice. Justice will be done. They presented before me some of the basic issues here. We’ll address them… We’ll do our best, we’ll give them justice, and strong action will be taken…”

Officials informed that the preliminary postmortem reports points that the student died after falling from a high place, “He suffered severe injury to the left side of the head and his left rib and pelvis were fractured due to the impact,” they said, citing preliminary postmortem reports.

Furthermore, the teen was taken to nearby KPC Hospital in Jadavpur in the night itself by classmates.

Earlier, police stated, “The student died in the hospital on Thursday morning while undergoing treatment.”