Sudipto Gupta

• SFI student leader's death: Pay Rs 10 lakh to his family, Bengal rights panel tells government

  The West Bengal Human Rights Commission has recommended Rs.10 lakh compensation to the next of kin of SFI leader Sudipto Gupta, who died in police custody in Kolkata after participating in an agitation programme on April 2 this year.

• In West Bengal, increasing violence among and against students

  The death of Student Federation of India (SFI) leader Sudipto Gupta in Kolkata on Tuesday may still be mired in controversy, but it has highlighted the spate of violence on college and even school campuses in West Bengal over the last year, especially after Mamata Banerjee took over as Chief Minister.

• Student leader Sudipto Gupta's father meets West Bengal Governor

  The father of student leader Sudipto Gupta, who died soon after he was arrested by the police during a student demonstration in Kolkata on Tuesday, today met West Bengal Governor MK Narayanan to seek justice for his son.

• Pulled up for Facebook post on Mamata Banerjee, Trinamool student quits

  A leader of the Trinamool Congress' youth wing has resigned from the party to protest against what he calls "dirty politics" over the death of Left student leader Sudipto Gupta.

• In death of Sudipto Gupta, a bus driver asks why he is being blamed

  The only person held responsible so far for the death of a young student activist from Kolkata is a bus driver, who said today that he is being made a scapegoat for a tragedy that nobody is willing to own up to.

• Mamata Banerjee says SFI activist Sudipto Gupta's death is 'petty matter', father objects

  West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee yesterday created a controversy by saying that young activist Sudipto Gupta's death was a "petty matter" and no reason for students in Kolkata to protest over. Mr Gupta's father, Pranab Kumar Gupta, anguished by Ms Banerjee's comments, today said he does not understand why such statements are being made. H...

• Kolkata student leader's death: It's a 'petty matter', says Mamata Banerjee

  West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Thursday created a controversy by saying that young activist Sudipto Gupta's death was a "petty matter" and no reason for students in Kolkata to protest over.

• Kolkata student leader's death: CCTV shows protesters allegedly beating up cop

  CCTV footage from near Kolkata's Presidency Jail has emerged, throwing no light on how student leader Sudipto Gupta died in police custody on Tuesday but showing his party activists allegedly roughing up a Home Guard.

• Kolkata student leader's death: It's a 'petty matter', says Mamata Banerjee

  West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee today created a controversy by saying that young activist Sudipto Gupta's death was a "petty matter" and no reason for students in Kolkata to protest over.

• Kolkata student's death: family wants CBI probe; Left calls for bandh

  The Left plans 15-minute road blocks and a 12-hour bandh in the Kolkata area where 22-year-old Sudipto Gupta, a student activist who died in police custody, lived. Mr Gupta's family wants the CBI to investigate how he died after being arrested during a students' protest on Tuesday.

• Sister of dead SFI activist for ban on politics at colleges

  The bereaved elder sister of a Students Federation of India (SFI) activist, whose death in police custody led to large protests, on Wednesday called for a ban on politics at educational institutions and urged students not to join politics.

• Activists arrested during protest in Chennai, Puducherry over Kolkata student's death

  Eighty Students Federation of India (SFI) activists were arrested in Chennai and in Puducherry on Wednesday while protesting against the death of SFI leader Sudipto Gupta allegedly in police custody in Kolkata.

• Autopsy shows all injuries to Kolkata student's body sustained before death: sources

  It took nearly three hours for the hearse of Sudipto Gupta, the 22-year-old student activist who died in police custody, to make its way from a Kolkata hospital to the crematorium.

• Who will listen now to my violin, asks Sudipto Gupta's father

  Pranab Gupta has lost his most ardent fan, his student-activist son Sudipto Gupta.

• Protest in Delhi over Kolkata student Sudipto Gupta's death

  Over a hundred students of Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) on Wednesday demonstrated in Delhi to protest the death of a student activist in Kolkata.