TIL Desk/National/Chennai/ Members of the Revolutionary Students and Youth Front (RSYF) and students from IIT-Madras staged a protest outside campus on Wednesday morning, a day after a student who had organised the ‘beef fest’ was allegedly assaulted by Right-wing students.
The students raised slogans against the BJP and demanded that the Centre roll back a controversial notification which bans the sale of any cattle, and not just cow, for slaughter at market places.
The protests followed an attack on PhD scholar Sooraj R who had allegedly organised the ‘beef fest’ on campus on Sunday. Sooraj was taken to Sankara Nethralaya in the city’s Nungambakkam area. “Sooraj was beaten up badly just for organising this fest,” said his friend Nidheesh, adding that the accused were also the students of the IIT.
Tensions escalated when another student, 22-year-old Maneesh Kumar Singh suffered a fracture in his right wrist in retaliation to the attack on Sooraj. IIT authorities have said an inquiry will be conducted by the institute and appropriate action will be taken based on its outcome.
A senior police official said a formal complaint was yet to be received but an inquiry was being held into the matter. “We will register a case on receipt of a complaint,” the official told.
