Movie screening in class ‘raided’ by JNU security: Students

Update: 2016-03-26 01:26 GMT
JNU students who have been agitating demanding “freedom of speech” have now alleged that the varsity’s security unit “raided” a classroom while a movie screening which was part of academic curriculum was going on. The officials maintained that there wasn’t an “intention” to raid or disrupt the screening but being “extra-vigilant” considering the recent turn of events in the university. A group of students have written to the JNUSU urging it to take the issue with the administration. The matter pertains to the Centre of Law and Governance where Anand Patwardhan’s “Father, Son and Holy war” was being screened on March 23. “I have got a complaint that a guard accompanied by his supervisor raided the ongoing movie screening which is the part of the one of the offered papers to M Phil students. The union will raise the issue of this classroom surveillance with the administration,” JNUSU vice-president Shehla Rashid said. A student of the same department, who did not wish to be named, said,” they intervened on the pretext of a so-called anonymous complaint that had been registered to the security control room. However, on demanding some circumstantial proof of the registered complaint by the students who were present in the seminar room, it could not be presented.”

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