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The JNU Teachers' Association connected Wednesday (January 7, 2026) slammed the assemblage medication for seeking an FIR implicit slogans raised during an lawsuit connected the field and accused it and Delhi Police of criminalising protest.
The teachers' assemblage was referring to the lawsuit organised by the Jawaharlal Nehru University Students' Union (JNUSU) to people the sixth day of the January 5, 2020 field attack, wherever slogans — allegedly against Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Union Home Minister Amit Shah — were raised.
The Delhi Police said an a non-cognizable study (NCR) successful the substance has been registered, pursuing a written ailment from the assemblage medication against respective JNUSU members who were astatine the event, successful solidarity with jailed pupil activists Umar Khalid and Sharjeel Imam, accused successful the 202 Delhi riots case.
In a connection titled 'Stop the Criminalisation of Protest', the Jawaharlal Nehru University Teachers' Association (JNUTA) said the administration, done its main information officer, had taken a "ridiculous presumption of asking the Delhi Police to registry an FIR connected simply the raising of slogans" astatine the event.
It alleged that some the assemblage medication and the constabulary had earlier failed to enactment against those liable for the 2020 violence.
"The JNU medication and the Delhi Police are precisely those that failed to archetypal forestall the undeniably transgression enactment of unit six years ago, and past recovered themselves 'unable' to place and instrumentality enactment against those responsible," the connection said.
Drawing parallels with the 2016 row, the teachers' assemblage claimed the latest enactment was portion of a signifier to delegitimise dissent. A sedition lawsuit was registered against pupil leaders from the assemblage pursuing alleged "anti-national" slogans raised astatine a gathering connected February 9, 2016.
"The existent intent of this play is lone to legitimise the throttling of each protestation and to destruct the antiauthoritarian ethos of the assemblage that had been the bedrock of its occurrence arsenic a nationalist institution," it said.
The relation said it saw the occurrence arsenic grounds that "10 years of the pursuit of the docket of destroying JNU has failed to vanquish the tone of the university", adding that absorption to what it termed the administration's authoritarianism "has remained alive".
It besides condemned what it described arsenic attempts to malign the assemblage done sections of the media and reiterated to proceed its conflict "in defence of the university", portion appealing to module to stay vigilant "against immoderate provocations".
The connection was signed by JNUTA president Surajit Mazumdar and caput Meenakshi Sundriyal.
