JNM medical college: Goons vandalized property in Kalyani

Kalyani: A group of unidentified intruders broke into the College of Medicine & JNM Hospital's academic campus in Kalyani and ransacked an auditorium. They also destroyed the auditorium's ceilings and acoustic system, vandalized washrooms and cut off cables. The incident took place on Friday night.

Nearly 250 junior doctors, interns and four batches of MBBS students have protested in front of the college's administrative building seeking explanation since Saturday morning. They demanded security arrangements from the West Bengal University of Health Sciences, which runs the medical college.

After the college authorities filed a complaint regarding the incident, the Kalyani police found out through a thorough investigation that the goons broke a window to enter the auditorium, but no arrests were made till Saturday evening.

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Later, through The Telegraph source, it came to the fore that due to lack of CCTV footage, the investigation was thwarted.

This angered the students and they boycotted the classes and continued the protest in suspect of sabotage. They submitted a memorandum to college authorities demanding the setting up of a police outpost on the campus and an investigation into the incident.

"We suspect a conspiracy behind the incident. The motive of the miscreants was not theft. They wanted to damage the properties of the college which students regularly use. The goons might attack students. The security personnel had no idea about the damage. The vandalism came to light when college staff saw it on Saturday morning," Salman Halder, a final-year MBBS student and students' union secretary, said.

Salman also stated "recovery of suspected inflammable items from the same spot to a lot of things. Police also nabbed two persons. We have decided to continue the demonstration until the administration makes a permanent solution."

Agitating students claimed that their suspicion about possible foul play was confirmed after a fire broke out in a room adjacent to the emergency unit of the hospital on three consecutive occasions early this month under "mysterious circumstances".

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Medical superintendent Avijit Mukherjee told The Telegraph, "I fully support the students. Security has become a matter of concern in the hospital and at the academic campus."

The college authorities had sought approval to issue a notice to the private security service in charge of the auditorium.

A team of officials from the health department's education wing will visit the hospital and college campus to help find a solution by talking to the students.