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Six girls barred from entering JNU hostel

Staff Reporter

The girls allegedly had beaten up a Dalit resident of the hostel

NEW DELHI: Jhelum hostel of Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) has been declared out of bounds for six girl students for allegedly beating up a Dalit resident of the hostel this past Friday. An independent enquiry headed by Chief Proctor, V.K. Jain, has also been initiated into the matter.

The incident seems to have been triggered by a fight between two male residents of Jhelum hostel, who are reportedly roommates and had an argument over an Ambedkar poster that had been put up by the Dalit student on Friday. Things reportedly went out of hand when the argument resulted in the two coming to blows, with both receiving injuries in the end.

It was, however, later in the evening that female friends of the non-Dalit student went and reportedly beat up the Dalit student. The girls, however, have reportedly claimed that they had been sexually harassed by the victim for the past two months and had only taken a stern step to deal with the problem.

A complaint was lodged by the girls with the Gender Sensitisation Committee Against Sexual Harassment (GSCASH) of the University on the same evening and before they went ahead and beat him up.

Despite the connection between the two cases, the university has decided to treat them as two different incidents with the enquiry likely to deal with them separately.

With the sequence of events still not very clear, university officials said a decision would be taken only after the enquiry committee submits its report. The four-member committee headed by V.K. Jain includes Prof. Rekha Vardan, Vidhu Verma and D.K. Lobial. "We have received complaints and counter complaints and are looking into the matter. The Vice-Chancellor has suggested that the report be submitted at the earliest, and we are hoping to do that. As of now things are not very clear,'' said Mr. Jain.

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