Was Hit With Cricket Stump as Cops Watched: Jadavpur Univ Student

Pawan Shukla, a postgraduate student, says he was assaulted by a ‘Jai Shri Ram’-chanting mob outside his university.

“They beat me with cricket bats, stumps and sticks. I was hit on my forehead with a wicket, and I was bleeding. I could see uniformed police personnel near me, and I asked them for help. But the Kolkata Police did not intervene.”

Pawan Shukla, injured Jadavpur University student

That is the story behind the now viral picture of the injured Jadavpur University student in a bloodstained white shirt. Pawan Shukla, a first-year postgraduate student at JU, says he was assaulted by a 'Jai Shri Ram'-chanting mob right outside his university campus on Thursday evening.

Even as the university and its immediate surroundings were subjected to arson, vandalism and thuggery, students like Pawan bore the worst brunt of the violence on campus.