Visva-Bharati officials pour water on an oven at a stall in the Pous Mela ground as VC Chakrabarty (in red jacket) looks on. Picture by Amarnath DuttaVisva-Bharati officials led by vice-chancellor Bidyut Chakrabarty on Sunday forcibly tried to evict traders from the Pous Mela and seized their items as they didn’t vacate the ground even after the conclusion of the fair on Friday. A team of over 150 persons visited stalls that continued to sell items and seized gas cylinders, clothes and blankets. “It is unfortunate that the organisers of the Pous Mela looted items from poor stall owners. The Visva-Bharati officials closed three entrances to the fairground and deployed security personnel to bar new visitors.

Source: The Telegraph December 29, 2019 19:02 UTC