A section of students of the Presidency University here went on an indefinite fast on Friday demanding withdrawal of the suspension of three students.
The three students were suspended on December 19 for locking the gate of the university and preventing the Vice Chancellor and other officials from entering the premises on September 10 when agitation over the hand over of Hindu Hostel was going on.
A spokesman of the agitating students Subho Biswas told PTI, 7 students including the three suspended ones sat for indefinite fast from 9 pm Friday demanding withdrawal of the suspension order and they be allowed to attend classes.
The institute has unions of both SFI and Independent Consolidation (IC).
Biswas said that a written appeal by the three to the university authorities for revoking the suspension order was turned down and they were asked to issue "unconditional apology" which the three students refused to do.
Referring to the September 10 incident of locking the gate, a day before the Convocation, he said "the three have been singled out among the 500 agitating students as main troublemakers on that day but under what logic is not clear."