We have watched with disgust and horror the brutal police assault on students during a peaceful demonstration organized by four Left students’ organizations on 2nd April, 2013 in Kolkata and the subsequent death of Sudipta Gupta, a participant in the demonstration, while in police custody.  Sudipta was a bright student and a leading activist of the Students’ Federation of India. We are shocked to see the Chief Minister of the state absolve the police of any responsibility for Sudipta’s death before a proper enquiry had even been initiated. We do not perceive this incident as an isolated one but rather as the egregious culmination of a series of systematic attacks on the civil and democratic rights of the academic community in West Bengal over recent months.  We strongly condemn this unprovoked singular attack on a peaceful students’ demonstration and the subsequent custodial death of Sudipta Gupta. We demand an immediate and impartial enquiry into the incident. 

Signatories:

1.  Parthiba Basu

Associate Professor, Department of Zoology, University of Calcutta

2.  Gautam Gangopadhyay

Associate Professor, Department of Physics, University of Calcutta

3.  Selvyn Jussy

Associate Professor, Department of Linguistics, University of Calcutta

4.  Gautam Gupta

Professor, Department of Economics, Jadavpur University, Calcutta

5.  IndraneelDasgupta

Professor, Economic Research Unit, Indian Statistical Institute, Calcutta

6.  Binayak Dutta-Roy

Former Professor, Saha Institute of Nuclear Physics, Calcutta

7.  SubimalSen

Former Professor, Saha Institute of Nuclear Physics Calcutta, and Former Chairman, WBSHEC

8.  Ratan Khasnobis

Professor, Department of Business Management, University of Calcutta

9.  Dinesh Abrol

Chief Scientist, National Institute of Science Technology and Development Studies, Delhi

10.  Indu Agnihotri

Professor and Director, Centre for Women’s Development Studies, Delhi

11.  S. Anandhi

Associate Professor, Madras Institute of Development Studies, Chennai

12.  G. Arunima

Associate Professor, Centre for Women’s Studies, Jawaharlal NehruUniversity, Delhi

13.  Bijay Bal

Former Scientist, Saha Institute of Nuclear Physics, Calcutta

14.  Sudipta Bandyopadhyay

Assistant Professor, Department of Physics, University of Calcutta

15.  Arindam Banerjee

Assistant Professor, School of Liberal Studies, Ambedkar University, Delhi

16.  Taposik Banerjee

Assistant Professor, School of Liberal Studies, Ambedkar University, Delhi

17.  Sharmistha Banerjee

Head, Department of Business Management, University of Calcutta

18.  Sumit Kumar Baruya

Assistant Professor, Department of Comparative Literature, Jadavpur University, Calcutta

19.  ChannaBasavaiah

Professor, Department of Political Science, Osmania University, Hyderabad

20.  PadmanavaBasu

Professor, Saha Institute of Nuclear Physics, Calcutta

21.  Saumyajit Bhattacharya

Associate Professor, Kirori Mal College, University of Delhi

22.  Sukanta Bhattacharya

Associate Professor, Department of Economics, University of Calcutta

23.  Sudipta Bhattacharya

Associate Professor, Department of Economics and Politics, Visva-Bharati, Shantiniketan

24.  Abhijit Bhattacharya

Associate Professor, Department of Physics, University of Calcutta

25.  Dwaipayan Bhattacharya

Fellow in Political Science, Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, Calcutta

26.  Jyotirmoy Bhattacharya

Assistant Professor, School of Liberal Studies, Ambedkar University, Delhi

27.  Kaushik Bhattacharya

Assistant Professor, Department of Physics, Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur

28.  Saswata Bhattacharya

Assistant Professor, Department of Bengali, Jadavpur University, Calcutta

29.  Kamales Bhaumik

Former Professor, Saha Institute of Nuclear Physics, Calcutta

30.  Parthasarath iBhaumik

Assistant Professor, Department of Comparative Literature, Jadavpur University, Calcutta

31.  Kaberi Chakraborty

Associate Professor, Department of Political Science, University of Calcutta

32.  Satyabrata Chakraborty

Professor, Department of Political Science, University of Calcutta

33.  Amitava Chakraborty

Associate Professor, Department of Modern Indian Languages & Literary Studies, University of Delhi

34.  MahalayaChatterje

Associate Professor, Department of Economics, University of Calcutta

35.  Apurba Kumar Chattopadhyay

Associate Professor, Department of Economics and Politics, Visva-Bharati, Shantiniketan

36.  Suchetana Chattopadhyay

Assistant Professor, Department of History, Jadavpur University, Calcutta

37.  Arijit Chaudhuri

Honorary Visiting Professor, Applied Statistics Unit, Indian Statistical Institute, Calcutta

38.  ShibaniChaudhury

Professor, Department of Environmental Studies, Visva-Bharati,Shantiniketan

39.  Chirashree Dasgupta

Associate Professor, School of Liberal Studies, Ambedkar University, Delhi

40.  Samantak Das

Associate Professor, Department of Comparative Literature, Jadavpur University, Calcutta

41.  Kandarpa Das

Professor and Director, Institute of Distance and Open Learning, Guwahati University

42.  Surajit Das

Assistant Professor, School of Liberal Studies, Ambedkar University, Delhi

43.  Jayati Das

Assistant Professor, Department of Physics, Jadavpur University, Calcutta

44.  SumangalaDamodaran

Associate Professor, School of Development Studies, Ambedkar University, Delhi

45.  Malabika Das Gupta

Honorary Associate, Centre for Urban Economic Studies, Department of Economics, University of Calcutta

46.  AnindyaDatta

Associate Professor, Department of Physics, University of Calcutta

47.  Shantanu De Roy

Visiting Faculty, Ambedkar University, Delhi

48.  RanjeetaDutta

Assistant Professor, Department of History, JamiaMilliaIslamia, Delhi

49.  SanjuktaGanguly

Former Professor, Saha Institute of Nuclear Physics, Calcutta

50.  Kuntal Ghosh

Assistant Professor, Machine Intelligence Unit, Indian Statistical Institute, Calcutta

51.  Aditi Ghosh

Senior Lecturer, Department of Linguistics, University of Calcutta

52.  Aurnab Ghose

Assistant Professor, Indian Institute of Science Education and Research, Pune

53.  AsimanandaGoswami

Professor, Saha Institute of Nuclear Physics, Calcutta

54.  Biswajit Haldar

Assistant Professor, Department of Economics and Politics, Visva-Bharati, Shantiniketan

55.  Arun Jana

Associate Professor, Department of Political Science, North Bengal University, Siliguri

56.  Debnarayan Jana

Associate Professor, Department of Physics, University of Calcutta

57.  Abdul Kafi

Assistant Professor, Department of Bengali, Jadavpur University, Calcutta

58.  GuruprasadKar

Professor, Physics and Applied Mathematics Unit, Indian Statistical Institute, Calcutta

59.  Dipak Kesh

Associate Professor, Department of Mathematics, Jadavpur University, Calcutta

60.  Sushil Khanna

Professor, Strategic Management Group, Indian Institute of Management, Calcutta

61.  Ayesha Kidwai

Professor, Centre for Linguistics, Jawaharlal Nehru University, Delhi

62.  AnirbanKundu

Professor, Department of Physics, University of Calcutta

63.  Abhijit Kundu

Associate Professor, University of Delhi

64.  Pradip K. Mahapatra

Reader, Department of Chemistry, Jadavpur University, Calcutta

65.  Shaswati Mazumdar

Professor, Department of Germanic and Romance Studies, University of Delhi

66.  Surajit Mazumdar

Associate Professor, School of Liberal Studies, Ambedkar University, Delhi

67.  MritiunjoyMohanty

Professor, Economics Group, Indian Institute of Management, Calcutta

68.  Debi Prasad Mishra

Professor, Institute of Rural Management, Anand, Gujarat.

69.  Ishita Mukhopadhyay

Professor, Department of Economics, University of Calcutta

70.  Surajit Mukhopadhyay

Registrar, National University of Juridical Sciences, Calcutta

71.  Maitreyee Nandy

Professsor, Saha Institute of Nuclear Physics, Calcutta

72.  Amitava Pal

Associate Professor, Institute of Agriculture, Visva-Bharati,Shantiniketan

73.  Debabrata Pal

Visiting Faculty, Ambedkar University, Delhi

74.  Parthapratim Pal

Associate Professor, Economics Group, Indian Institute of Management, Calcutta

75.  Subrata Pal

Professor, Biotechnology, Jadavpur University, Calcutta

76.  Rajni Palriwala

Professor, Department of Sociology, University of Delhi

77.  Archana Prasad

Associate Professor, Centre for Jawaharalal Nehru Studies, JamiaMilliaIslamia, Delhi

78.  M Rajivlochan

Professor, Department of History, Punjab University, Chandigarh

79.  V.K. Ramachandran

Professor, Economics Unit, Indian Statistical Institute, Bangalore

80.  Manas Ray

Fellow in Cultural Studies, Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, Calcutta

81.  Rahul Roy

Professor, Theoretical Statistics and Mathematics Unit, Indian Statistical Institute, Delhi

82.  JyotiSabharwal

Senior Lecturer, Department of Germanic and Romance Studies, University of Delhi

83.  Himansu Charan Sadangi

Reader and HOD, Sociology, Govt Autonomous College, Bhawanipatna

84.  Maitreyee SahaSarkar

Professor, Saha Institute of Nuclear Physics, Calcutta

85.  Pranab Sarkar

Associate Professor, Department of Chemistry, Visva-Bharati, Shantiniketan

86.  Sukhendu Sekhar Sarkar

Professor, Bengal Engineering and Science University, Howrah

87.  BhupenSarmah

Professor and Director, Omiyo Kumar Das Institute of Social Change and Development, Guwahati

88.  Sucharita Sen

Associate Professor, Centre for the Study of Regional Development, Jawaharlal Nehru University, Delhi

89.  Sharmistha Sen

Associate Professor, ZakirHussain College, Delhi

90.  Jayeeta Sharma

Assistant Professor, University of Toronto, Ontario, Canada

91.  Anup Sinha

Professor, Economics Group, Indian Institute of Management, Kolkata

92.  Rajyeswar Sinha

Assistant Professor, Department of Bengali, Jadavpur University, Calcutta

93.  Janaky Sreedharan

Professor, University of Calicut, Kerala

94.  Vamsi Vakulabharanam

Associate Professor, Department of Economics, University of Hyderabad

95.  PranabBasu

Professor, Department of Economics and Politics, Visva-Bharati, Shantiniketan

96.  Arindam Bhattacharya

Assistant Professor, University of Calcutta

97.  Sanjay Bohidar

Associate Professor, Shri Ram College of Commerce, Delhi University

98.  Rudrashish Chakraborty

Assistant Professor, Kirori Mal College, Delhi University

99.  Vibha Maurya

Professor, Department of Germanic and Romance Studies, Delhi University

100.  VijayaVenkataraman

Associate Professor, Department of Germanic and Romance Studies, Delhi University

101.  Abhai Maurya

Professor, Department of Slavonic & Finno-Ugrian Studies, Delhi University