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JNU serves show-cause notice on 11 students

Staff Reporter

NEW DELHI: The Jawaharlal Nehru University Students' Union Council has decided to meet Vice-Chancellor B.B. Bhattacharya over serving of show-cause notices to 11 students for allegedly gheraoing and illegally confining Registrar Avais Ahmad nearly four months ago.

"JNU has always been known for its progressive culture, its democratic traditions and its social concerns for the marginalised and downtrodden. We appeal to the JNU administration to appreciate and nurture the social concerns of students rather than pursue an arbitrary course of action," said the JNUSU in a letter to the Vice-Chancellor on Monday.

"To continue with the Proctorial inquiry and fix blame on individual students for an incident for which the JNUSU as a body has taken collective responsibility and expressed regret will once again push the University into a stage of siege and create an unfortunate and avoidable atmosphere," said the letter.

The show-cause notices were served on 11 students, including three JNUSU office-bearers -- president Dhananjay Tripathi, general secretary Sandeep Singh, and joint secretary Jyotsna Singh.

The notice asks students why they should not be punished for their involvement in the February 19 incident in which the Registrar was illegally confined and gheraoed in his staff car for more than six hours.

The students have been crying foul wanting to know why the administration was raking up the matter now when their suspension orders were revoked a few months ago.

"The suspensions were withdrawn as the students submitted a written apology regretting the incident. So why is the administration issuing show cause notices now? It is not morally correct also since the University is closed and most of the students who have been served the notice are not even on the campus to receive them or respond to them. This is simply the administration's ploy of frustrating the students' initiative and concerns raised by them," said Sandeep Singh.

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