ADITYA GHOSH Vs. UNIVERSITY OF CALCUTTA

JUDGEMENT

(1.) This Writ Petition has been filed by 15 Students of the K. K. Das College expressing their willingness to contest the students election. The College had issued an election Notice on 14.12.2011 indicating the date of the election, the date of issuance of nomination papers, the date of submission of nomination papers and the date of publication of the final list of valid candidates. According to the Petitioners, the election programme was as per the provisions of the Calcutta University Rules and Regulations.

(2.) It is stated in Paragraph 5 that on 19.12.2011, the Petitioners wanted to obtain nomination papers but followers of the Trinamool Congress (a Political Party) and other anti-social elements prevented them and blocked all roads leading to the College. It has been stated that the Petitioners attempted to enter the College and contacted the College authorities over telephone but in vain. According to the Petitioners, the anti-social elements terrorized the entire locality/vicinity of the College and as such the Petitioners were unable to submit their representations to the College authorities. They have stated that even the Police authorities refused to accept the complaints of the Petitioners and, therefore, finding no other alternative, they sent their representations to the College authorities as well as to the Police through Speed Post. Their representations referred to in Paragraph 7, is Annexure P- 1 to the Writ Petition.

(3.) The Petitioners have stated that the situation was such that they were not even in a position to send their representations from Garia Post Office but ultimately they were able to send them through the Jadavpore Post Office.