Two Left workers were today arrested for allegedly damaging university property and preventing police from discharging their duties during the incident of 'ransacking' at Burdwan University Administrative campus on February 23.
Sheikh Naseem Ahmed and Sheikh Feroz, were picked up from their residences in Burdwan town at around 1.30 AM, the police said.
While Ahmed is the secretary of the town zonal committee of Democratic Youth Federation of India (DYFI), the youth wing of the CPI(M), Feroz is a DYFI member, police said.
Burdwan police station inspector in-charge Priyabrata Bakshi said the duo were arrested on several charges, including assaulting university employees, attacking women police personnel and illegally entering the campus with lathis and bamboo poles on February 23.
The arrests were made on the basis of the Vice-Chancellor Smriti Kumar Sarkar's complaint, he said adding that the police also instituted a suo motu case against the duo.
CPI(M) town zonal committee member Tapas Sarkar said the arrest was part of a "pre-planned operation".
The CPI(M) today gave a deputation to the officer in-charge of Burdwan police station demanding immediate release of the two DYFI members.
Activists of the SFI, students' wing of the CPI(M), had allegedly ransacked the Administrative Campus of Burdwan University on February 23 following which the police baton charged them.
They damaged motorbikes, furniture, window panes and the authorities were forced to call the police to protect the staff and property of the university, the VC had alleged.
SFI district secretary Dipankar Dey had claimed that around 12 activists were injured in the baton charge.
He had said that the organisation wanted to give a deputation to the authorities on the "repeated publication of erroneous result" for the second year's examination.
