Fruit vendor, fish butcher among 16 released in NEET-protest violence case

5 min readJul 29, 2026 12:34 PM IST The violence broke out during a protest march from Sealdah to Dorina Crossing. (Express Photo by Ravik Bhattacharya)“He had gone to the shop for groceries that day with a few acquaintances. He was picked up after the protest. I don’t even know what he actually did at the protest site,” said the mother-in-law of 47-year-old Khalid Reja alias Rinku, who was among the 16 people arrested in connection with violence during a NEET paper leak protest by the Left students’ organisations on July 24. Rinku, a resident of Madan Mohan Barman Street in Jorasanko, runs a small footwear-making setup and sells slippers.A fruit vendor, fish butchers, unemployed graduates, and grassroots political workers were among the 16 people released on Tuesday after a Kolkata court