Bidyut chakrabarty biography of rory

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    Day before retirement, Visva-Bharati V-C summoned by Bengal cops in plaque case

    KOLKATA: Bidyut Chakrabarty, whose five-year term as vice-chancellor (V-C) of Visva-Bharati, West Bengal’s only Central university, ended on Wednesday, was summoned by Santiniketan police station in Birbhum district in connection with the complaint lodged against him for installing stone plaques marking the inclusion of Santiniketan township in the UNESCO world heritage list.

    “The notice, asking Chakrabarty to appear before the investigating officer on November 14, was served on Tuesday,” Kasturi Mukherjee Chatterjee, officer-in-charge of Santiniketan police station, told HT.

    Chakrabarty, who demitted office on Wednesday afternoon and was succeeded by officiating vice-chancellor Sanjoy Kumar Mallik, a professor of art history at Visva-Bharati’s Kala Bhavana, did not comment on the summon notice.

    The police case is linked to the plaques installed on the open-air campus that bear the names of Pr