Overview
- The clash at the Satyajit Ray Film and Television Institute unfolded on Sunday, September 27, when students objected to an Akhil Bharatiya Grahak Panchayat programme in the institute auditorium and the dispute turned physical.
- Students and organisers offer sharply different accounts: students say speakers made provocative remarks and ABGP members assaulted and called them “anti‑national,” while ABGP says it lawfully rented the hall, its posters were torn and several of its members were hurt and hospitalised.
- Police deployed a large contingent to the campus, SRFTI officials said the situation was under control, and students responded by locking the main gate and staging a sit‑in demanding arrests and formal FIRs.
- Visuals and eyewitness reports circulated widely and SRFTI students and alumni held off‑site protests at the IDSFFK venue to press for an independent inquiry and accountability.
- The incident follows recent campus confrontations in Kolkata and highlights a broader clash over who may use academic spaces, with investigators yet to verify contested claims such as knife attacks, exact injury counts, and property damage.