Two Left workers arrested for Burdwan University violence

February 25, 2016 14:19

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, the youth wing of the CPI-M, Feroz is a DYFI member, the 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.

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