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The Jawaharlal Nehru University Teachers’ Association (JNUTA) connected Tuesday demanded the reinstatement of the 5 students, including the 4 office-bearers of JNU Students’ Union (JNUSU), who were rusticated for 2 semesters. JNUSU president Aditi Mishra, vice-president Gopika Babu, wide caput Sunil Yadav, associated caput Danish Ali, and erstwhile JNUSU president Nitish Kumar were rusticated connected Monday for “vandalism” during a protestation held past twelvemonth against the installation of a biometric strategy for introduction into the Dr. B.R. Ambedkar Central Library connected the campus.
Terming the rustication orders an “assault connected the corporate antiauthoritarian rights” of the university’s pupil body, the teachers’ relation said, “The judge, assemblage and executioner successful each these cases is an administration, which is the existent look of vandalism successful the assemblage with its mundane acts of demolition of the instauration from within.”
“We [the JNUTA] request contiguous revocation of the rustication orders,” the teachers’ relation stated successful a release.
Meanwhile, the JNUTA reiterated its demand, earlier submitted to President Droupadi Murmu, that Vice-Chancellor Santishree Dhulipudi Pandit beryllium removed from her presumption arsenic the caput of the institution.
JNU administrative officials did not remark connected the rustication orders.
When reached for remark connected the destiny of the rusticated students, the V-C did not respond.
