New Delhi: A month before his tenure as president of the Delhi University Students Union comes to an end, the Delhi High Court on Friday upheld the disqualification of Rocky Tuseed's candidature by the varsity, saying that he could not have contested the election.
Justice VK Rao said Tuseed had assaulted a student in his college for which he was barred from entering the campus despite his apology and had not disclosed this information in his nomination form, leading to a violation of the Lyngdoh Committee recommendations.
Rao noted that the recommendations "clearly stipulates if a candidate had faced disciplinary action, the same would be a non-eligibility for such a student to stand in the election".
"The affidavit given by the petitioner (Tuseed) that he was not subject to any disciplinary action by the university authorities was not correct," the court observed, dismissing Tuseed's plea challenging disqualification of his candidature by DU in September last year.