New Delhi: The Delhi High Court Friday described as "shocking" that the Jawaharlal Nehru University had no idea about the academic details of the students against whom it has filed a contempt petition for protesting within 100 metres of its administrative block.
Justice A K Chawla directed the university to file an affidavit giving details of the students named in the contempt petition, including their courses, its status and duration of stay in the campus.
The court listed the matter for hearing on next Friday.
"It is shocking you
file a contempt and you don't know anything about the students, one of whom was
convicted for contempt last year also.
"You only know the room numbers (of the students)," the court said, after the Registrar of JNU and other officials, present in the hearing, were unable to give details about one of the nine students — Geeta Kumari — who according to the varsity was last year held guilty of contempt by the high court for protesting near the administrative block.
"How long she has been studying there? Shouldn't the Registrar know? Is that not a basic thing? Do you know which course she or others are studying? No? Why not," the court said.