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Jadavpur University alumnus granted bail after arrest over attack plot on Bengal minister
Jadavpur University alumnus Hindol Majumdar was produced before the Alipore court on Monday following the expiry of the tenure of three-day police custody.
Jadavpur University alumnus Hindol Majumdar, accused of plotting an attack on West Bengal education minister Bratya Basu's convoy on the varsity campus in March this year, was granted bail by a court in Kolkata on Monday, five days after he was arrested at the Delhi airport.
Majumdar was produced before the Alipore court on Monday following the expiry of the tenure of three-day police custody.
The court granted bail to the accused on the surety of ₹1,000, according to news agency PTI.
The accused, currently a researcher at a Spanish university, was held at Delhi airport last Wednesday when he landed from Europe in the wake of a lookout circular notice issued against him.
The court reportedly granted him bail after his counsel submitted that there was no visible progress in the police investigation against him.
Opposing the bail, Kolkata Police argued that his release could affect the “smooth progress of investigation” and prayed for his judicial custody instead.
The incident took place when Basu was at the university's main campus to attend a meeting of the Trinamool Congress (TMC)-backed professors' body, WBCUPA.
When he was leaving the campus, he faced demonstrations from Left-wing outfits, who were demanding that the long-pending students' union elections be conducted at the earliest.
Basu alleged that he was physically heckled by the protesters and his car vandalised.
In a statement last week, varsity's representative professors' body JUTA slammed the arrest of Majumdar describing it as "an act of revenge.".
Association general secretary Partha Pratim Roy said the arrest brought to the fore the "autocratic, revengeful character of the state government who want to turn Bengal into a police state."
"While authorities claim Majumdar was arrested in connection with the incident on JU campus, let us remember he was away in Spain at that time to pursue his research work. In fact he had been away in the European country for research work since 2023," a PTI news agency report quoted JUTA president Parthapratim Biswas.
