The defiant students also asserted they will not pay fines imposed by the committee and vacate hostels as ordered by the university.He questioned vice-chancellor M. Jagadesh Kumar’s hurry in announcing the decision after he came back from his leave as he did not address issues such as hostel shortage, OBC reservation, and deprivation points for admission.Mr Bhattacharya has been given a window of a week (July 15-23) to submit his thesis, failing which he will have to start his Ph.” Mr Khalid was rusticated for one semester and imposed a penalty of Rs 20,000 and Mr Bhattacharya has been rusticated till July 15 and debarred from taking up any course for next five years.”A delegation of the JNU Teachers’ Association met the vice-chancellor and raised concern over the punishment orders. “This administration is running from phone calls coming from outside,” he said. “It was an unfruitful meeting.“We have decided that none of the students will pay the fine or vacate their hostels.“The two cases cannot be compared.

They are supposed pvc Fascia Board to vacate hostels immediately and pay fine by May 17, the university added.The JNU students and teachers were also angry over the severity of punishment awarded to Anirban Bhattacharya by the committee as compared to Umar Khalid, but university officials said the decision was taken after taking into account the students’ record of conduct.The university said that the students have an option of filing an appeal before the chief proctor if they are not satisfied with the committee’s decision.

“We will begin an indefinite hungerstrike from tomorrow (Wednesday) after staging a protest march from the Ganga Dhaba till the administration block.Even, five ABVP members went on a hungerstrike on Tuesday against the imposition of penalty of Rs 10,000 on Saurabh Sharma, the JNUSU joint secretary.Students of Jawaharlal Nehru University will go on an indefinite hungerstrike from Wednesday against the report of the high-level inquiry committee that meted out punishments to a group of students allegedly linked to the controversial Afzal Guru event on the campus in February. We demand that the university administration withdraws these orders as we have maintained right from the beginning that we do not have faith in this inquiry panel and it should be reconstituted,” JNUSU vice-president Shehla Rashid Shora said.D.

The chief proctor’s office has taken into account not only the committee’s report, but also the previous record of the students’ conduct,’ a senior university official said.The found Umar Khalid and Anirban Bhattacharya guilty of “arousing communal violence and disrupting harmony on campus.“We have rejected the so-called high-level inquiry committee right from the day it was setup as an undemocratic and biased one, so there is no point accepting the punishment meted out to us on basis of its findings,” JNUSU president Kanhaiya Kumar said at a press conference. We had spoken to the administration demanding strict punishment against the ones who have been found guilty and withdrawal of my fine. The students, supported by JNUTA, on Tuesday held a protest march and burned the report, which it described as “casteist and autocratic,” and criticised arbitrary punishments.. The students said they will continue the hungerstrike till the committee’s orders are withdrawn. The decision has been well-timed by the university officials to avoid any protests as summer break is about to begin, but we will not bow down and will continue our fight. We have decided to call an emergent general body meeting on Thursday to decide on future course of action,” a JNUTA member said. “I was the one to object to an anti-national event and I have been penalised and equated with Kanhaiya. afresh after five years at JNU though he is eligible to enrol in any other university at any time