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JNU hostellers complain about “goons”

Staff Reporter

University administration urged to declare the hostel out of bounds for five students
Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad has alleged that its activists were beaten up by SFI activists

NEW DELHI: Apart from the two groups of students who made representations to the Chief Proctor of Jawaharlal Nehru University on the clash during the Chandrabhaga hostel party on Sunday night, a number of residents of the hostel on Tuesday complained to him about a “group of goons” who intentionally disrupted the programme.

In a letter to Prof. H. B. Bohidar, residents of Chandrabhaga hostel urged the administration to declare the hostel out of bounds for Saurabh Dubey, Gopal Krishnan, Ravi, Santosh Pathak and Manoj Kumar alleging that they “intentionally disrupted the programme and indulged in abusive violent behaviour with the girls of the organising committee” during the party this past Sunday.

“They entered the dining venue in an inebriated condition and refused to cooperate with the hostel committee members on being asked to produce the requisite number of coupons. Instead they started creating a ruckus and tried to intimidate the girls at the counter by banging on the table and shouting. Later during the night, the same group targeted a student, Chandrashekhar, and beat him up badly to the extent that he had to be administered stitches,” they said in the letter.

On Monday, Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad had alleged that its activists Manoj, Santosh and Saurabh were beaten up by activists of the Students’ Federation of India, including former students’ union president Dhananjay Tripathi and Roshan Kishore “without any provocation”.

Claiming that this group also beat up a security officer and threatened those who confronted them, the hostellers have alleged that “this group has repeatedly indulged in violence and abuse” on the campus on several occasions.

Meanwhile, in a release on Tuesday, the SFI has dismissed ABVP’s allegations as “baseless slander” in order to save the skin of its activists and leaders.

The SFI also highlighted the “past record” of the ABVP activists, two of whom were also responsible for allegedly disrupting the students’ union presidential debate last year.

“The fact that such elements have been indulging in such activities on the campus has been actively felicitated by the soft approach of the administration towards them,” charged SFI-JNU unit president P. K. Anand in the statement.

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