BESU students return after signing code of conduct

HOWRAH (WB): Students of the Bengal Engineering and Science University on Monday began returning to their hostels which they had been asked to vacate on November six after violent clashes between members of two students' unions.
    
The classes in the prestigious university, riven by student politics, are scheduled to resume from Tuesday.
    
The Registrar of the university Biman Bandopadhyay said students in the first and second year had been allowed to return.
    
The authorities would take a decision on the return of the third and fourth year students later.     

All students and their guardians have been asked to sign a code of conduct before taking up their hostel rooms. The code of conduct, applicable to teachers, officials and non-teaching staff as well, was decided in an emergency meeting of the institute's governing body on November 13.
    
The classes were suspended and male were students asked to vacate the hostels after a DSP was injured and eight students arrested in clashes between students belonging to Students Federation of India, the CPI-M students wing, and Independent Consolidation, which is not affiliated to any political party.
    
The university has been bedevilled by student politics for a long time. Only last year a student was killed in clashes between two groups of students and the university was closed for a few days as a result. No student election had taken place in the university since 2005 due to the frequent clashes.