KOLKATA: Four Trinamool Congress supporters were arrested on Saturday for allegedly beating up Jadavpur University (JU) professor Ambikesh Mahapatra. But they walked free on bail within two and a half hours. In contrast, Ambikesh, who was arrested for forwarding a chain mail that lampooned chief minister Mamata Banerjee, spent 16 hours in police custody and was forced to go to court when he could have easily been bailed at the police station itself.
Also, while Ambikesh filed his complaint around 8pm on Friday, the four alleged attackers were nabbed only around Saturday noon. Police had shown much more alacrity in arresting Ambikesh and his 74-year-old neighbour Subrata Sengupta, whose ID he used to forward the chain mail, as soon as they were dragged to East Jadavpur police station by Trinamool supporters around midnight on Thursday. These obvious discrepancies led to cries of discrimination by the teacher's family and friends.
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