Kolkata, Oct. 4 -- Three students from Aliah University were allegedly targeted with communal slurs and assaulted while returning home on September 24 in Kolkata, West Bengal.

The incident occurred when Md Ashique Billah, Moyajjem Hossain, and Hasanur Jaman were on their way to the Sealdah railway station at around 2.40 pm from the university's Taltala campus, where they study in the Department of Islamic Theology. Two middle-aged men on a two-wheeler allegedly intercepted them near a hospital.

"The miscreants arrived on a black-and-white scooty and tried to provoke a communal clash. Even though we tried to avoid them, they kept advancing to pick a fight with us and began using abusive language. A major altercation started there," Ashiq...