Overview
- A clash between SRFTI students and members of the Akhil Bharatiya Grahak Panchayat turned physical on Sunday, September 27, leaving several people from both sides injured and footage of wounded students circulating online.
- Students say the dispute began when they objected to an outside ABGP programme held in the institute auditorium and that organisers and supporters used abusive language and attacked protesters.
- ABGP says it had legally booked the main theatre, paid the required fee, and that its members were assaulted and their posters damaged; both sides have lodged competing allegations.
- Police moved in to secure the SRFTI campus, questioned participants, escorted ambulances out, and the students staged a sit-in while demanding immediate FIRs and protection for those inside.
- The incident follows recent campus polarisation in Kolkata and has drawn filmmakers, alumni and public figures into calls for an impartial inquiry to protect campus autonomy and to clarify what happened.