The Kolkata Police on Wednesday arrested six more persons in connection with the death of a first-year student of Jadavpur University. Those arrested include students and former students who were present in the hostel when the first year student fell to death from the second floor of the main hostel building of the university in the early hours of August 10.
With this, the number of those arrested in connection with the incident has gone up to nine. So far five students and four alumni of the university have been arrested in the case. According to the police these six students were arrested on the basis of statement made by the three students. The six arrested were produced before a city Court who were remanded to police custody till August 28. Diaries, exercise books, mobile phone and a laptop were seized by the police, the public prosecutor told journalists.
