kolkata the kolkata police team probing the april 10 violence at presidency university may have chosen to focus on durwan pappu singh and his wife but the other probe team headed by former presidency college principal amal mukhopadhyay focused on 19 witnesses on thursday the police team videographed the vicechancellors statements and seized a statement of records from the sports department about the number of javelins it has the cops said they would interrogate other witnesses too but declined to say when pappu was of course one of the 19 people examined by mukhopadhyays team but the list also included vicechancellor malabika sarkar registrar prabir dasgupta members of the faculty nonteaching staff students and two other durwans may choose to focus only on pappu singh and his wife rekha for their probe till now in the april 10 presidency university vandalism the other probe team headed by former presidency college principal amal mukhopadhyay on thursday focused on 19 witnesses including vicechancellor malabika sarkar registrar prabir dasgupta faculties nonteaching staff students and ofcouse pappu and two other presidency darwans the reason is obvious for mukhopadhyay unlike police doesnt have a ruling party mandate to police to establish a political conspiracy behind the vandalism the examination by mukhopadhyays team made it clear that he was under no ones orders to establish a political conspiracy behind the vandalism said a source mukhopadhyay was appointed by the west bengal human rights commission to probe the incident and submit a report assisted by a commission team he spoke at length to apart from the vc and the registrar dean of students deboshruti roychaudhury emeritus professor in history rajat kanta ray and assistant professor in zoology souryadeep mukherjee among faculty wbhrcs team mukhopadhyay spoke at length to 19 people starting his list with vc the registrar deboshruti roychaudhury the dean of students rajat kanta ray emeritus professor in history and souryadeep mukherjee assistant professor of zoology among faculties sources said that while the team quizzed them on the events of the day for dasgupta it also hinged on the number of calls he made to police during the day and the conversations he had with the jorasanko oc the team also spoke to three security guards three members of the nonteaching staff and four students including deborshi chakraborty who was injured during the vandalism we have examined people who know what happened that day said mukhopadhyay this will continue on friday and monday we hope to submit a report within a fortnight he added jorasanko oc siddhartha dutta denied reports that the cops had asked pappu for his bank statements or that they had questioned his wife rekha none of my officers had asked for the bank accounts or spoken to pappus wife he said dubbing pappus questioning as routine the police said they too would question people who had witnessed the incident police sources said they would even inform the vc on the people to be questioned a week on after the incident