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Jamia Millia Islamia (JMI) has declared that protests tin instrumentality spot lone astatine an earmarked area, wrong Gate No. 18, according to a caller notification. All different areas person been declared “out of bounds” and students violating the regularisation volition person stringent punishment, it added.
While assemblage sources said the October 10 notification was issued successful a “democratic spirit”, students person called it an effort to “curb protests”.
The determination comes months aft the JMI issued suspension orders to 17 students for protesting “without permission” and “vandalising nationalist property”, aft a sit-in connected the field against the university’s bid banning “protests without permission”.
The notification from the Chief Proctor Office stated the determination was taken connected the ground of a 2017 High Court bid that students cannot clasp demonstrations wrong a 100-metre periphery of the JMI administrative artifact and the institute tin earmark an country wherever they tin freely protest.
According to it, the country wrong Gate No. 18 has been designated arsenic the spot for “students... springiness vent to their feelings and explicit themselves wrong a antiauthoritarian framework, taxable to anterior permission”.
Several students said they volition soon organise protests against the notification.
