Balurghat Law College's principal threatened of being beheaded

The principal of Balurghat Law College has lodged a complaint with the local police station after he received a telephone call threatening to behead him if some of the failed candidates were not promoted to the next class.

On the basis of the complaint, police started a probe in this regard. The principal of the college Durjay Kumar Deb alleged that a person called up on his mobile number and threatened to behead him if he does not allow the promotion of the failed candidates. The accused rang him up by taking name of an unsuccessful candidate.

It may be mentioned that Gour Banga University had suspended 10 students, including three women for two years for writing love letters and poetry in their answer scripts. All of them were law students in the fourth-semester.

The principal of the college told the police that the person who called him up had introduced himself as one Selim Javed who was among the 10 students suspended for writing nonsense.

Deb told the police that the accused threatened to kill him if he was not promoted to the next class and his suspension was not withdrawn.

He was also threatened that he would be abducted from wherever he was. Police have started a probe to ascertain if Selim had made the telephone call or someone else had threatened the principal by taking his name.

As many as 181 students of the law college appeared for the second semester exam and 72 students wrote the fourth semester exam late last year. After the results were published, it was found that only 25 students cleared the second semester and only one passed the fourth semester exam.

After the students were suspended by the university in last week, they vandalised the law college and the chamber of the principal Durjay Kumar Deb alleging their answer sheets were not evaluated properly.

Following the incident, the examination monitoring committee of the university formed a sub-committee to probe the whole matter.

The committee held 10 students guilty of writing love letters on their answer scripts. The committee also summoned the 10 students to record their statements. Eight appeared and admitted to their offences. But two never turned up.

Police are not taking the threat call lightly. They have started a detailed probe into the incident and are interrogating some of the suspended students in this connection.