Calcutta High Court Orders Closure Of Union Rooms In All State Colleges Till Student Elections Are Held
The Calcutta Excessive Courtroom has ordered all union rooms throughout state-run faculties to be indefinitely shut down until pupil elections are held within the state.
A division bench of Justices Soumen Sen and Smita Das De handed these orders in gentle of the alleged gang rape of a law student at South Kolkata Regulation School by her fellow college students and a fomer pupil & contractual employees on the school.
Notably, pupil elections have been final held in West Bengal in 2017, with varied pleas on the Excessive Courtroom highlighting the shortage of elected representatives for college students in state-run faculties, together with observations on the identical by Excessive Courtroom Chief Justice TS Sivagnanam.
Reportedly, the sufferer within the current case had been ushered away by the accused to a room designated for the scholar union.
Whereas listening to the PILs into the difficulty of the rape of the scholar, the court docket has requested the state to file its affidavit detailing steps taken and answer the queries raised by the litigants regarding the lack of security measures on campus.
