In the early hours of Thursday, police entered Jadavpur University campus in south Kolkata after a request from the interim Vice-Chancellor Abhijit Chakrabarti to “rescue” him. He was gheraoed by the students for about 10 hours before he called the police. The police shoved and dragged the students out of the varsity's main gate. Later the students demonstrated outside the local police station. Photo: Ronny Sen
While the students continued with their protest outside the administrative building demanding the removal of the Vice-Chancellor, the officials and professors of the University camped outside the gate. Photo: Sushanta Patranabis
The campus turned into a huge canvas from Thursday with sketches, posters and protest songs. The top favourite of the media and the onlookers was a neat sketch of the Vice-Chancellor where he’s seen threatening the students. But he denied threatening the students. Photo: Sushanta Patranabis
On Friday, University students took their protest outside the campus demanding the resignation of the Vice-Chancellor and an “independent panel” to probe the molestation of a student within the campus on August 28, which triggered the impasse. Photo: Sushanta Patranabis
Students from other universities and colleges in West Bengal too joined the agitation and marched towards the police headquarters at Lal Bazar in central Kolkata. Photo: Sushanta Patranabis
Students organised protests using social media and posted plans to organise meetings and called for support from their friends in other universities. Photo: Ronny Sen
Students from Jawaharlal Nehru University, EFLU Hyderabad and Delhi University hit the streets. JNU and DU students organised a march to Banga Bhawan, the official guest house of the West Bengal government in Delhi on Saturday. Photo credit: Akhil Kumar
Students took out a massive rally on Saturday in Kolkata and a seven-member team visited West Bengal Governor Keshari Nath Tripathi. The huge turnout was comparable to rallies taken out in November 2007, when people protested the police action against the farmers in Nandigram in south Bengal. Photo: Ronny Sen
Jadavpur University authorities claim that its official website was “hacked”. Photo: Special Arrangement
Police did not allow Saturday’s rally to move beyond Mayo Road in central Kolkata. However, the force was “submissive,” claimed students. The Governor promised the students that he would “look into the issue”. Photo: Ronny Sen
After a successful march on Saturday by the Jadavpur University students, the students' wing of the All India Trinamool Congress plans to take out a rally on Monday. Authorities fear more trouble over the week. Photo: Facebook timeline of filmmaker Suman Mukhopadhyay.