Mitra also questioned the university’s action, saying it should have handled the matter more sensitively and should not “destroy students’ academic lives”. (File)

By Sharanyo Basu

Presidency University in Kolkata , Bengal, has expelled a student and taken academic action against another former student over the alleged defacement of Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad (ABVP) posters on campus, a day after senior RSS functionary Jishnu Basu delivered a lecture at an event hosted by the ABVP.

According to university sources, a final-year post-graduate student and a former student, both from the sociology department, had allegedly defaced the ABVP poster.

While the student has been expelled from the university, both the student and the former student have been banned from enrolling in any future programmes at Presidency University.…