Kolkata: Jadavpur University on Sunday decided to suspend a fourth-year chemical engineering student from his ongoing eighth semester, including attending classes and appearing for exams, and has debarred him from entering campus and hostel premises following an incident of verbal abuse, slut shaming, physical assault and sexual harassment of a few students on campus on Nov 18, 2025. He was also found guilty in another incident in Sept where a student sustained a head injury. Punishments, ranging from withholding of results and degrees for six months to a year, ineligibility for further admission in JU, not participating in convocation, and not participating in any extracurricular activity, have been accepted against six other students at the EC meeting. Among the six students, four were found guilty in the Nov 18 incident. Two others were involved in the Sept incident. JU formed a panel after Nov 18 and had debarred four students from the campus till the probe was complete.The panel’s report said the chemical engineering student used “abusive, derogatory, sexually coloured, and objectionable language, particularly against female students and members of the arts faculty, in the presence of students and security personnel”, and physically assaulted male students, in two instances on Nov 18. Two fourth-year production engineering students, a civil engineering student and a chemical engineering student joined him and initiated violent attacks on some students near Aurobindo Bhavan on that day. The panel said, “The conduct of these students demonstrates unlawful aggression, intimidation, group violence, wilful disobedience of security and administrative authorities, and gross indiscipline.”An EC member said, “The main accused — the chemical engineering fourth-year student — has been suspended from all academic activities in his ongoing eighth semester, apart from other penalties. Four fourth-year students can attend classes and appear for exams but their results and degrees will be withheld for six months to a year. Two other students have admitted their mistakes so, their degrees will not be withheld. But the rest of the punishments are same for all six.”
