JNU students to face action for stopping Dean's ambulance

New Delhi: The Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) administration on Monday said it would take "severe action" against a few students, who disallowed an ambulance carrying Dean of Students (DoS) to hospital after he fell ill during a meeting. "Today the Inter Hostel Administration (IHA) meeting was scheduled to be held at 10 am in the Convention Centre of JNU. Some students who are not members of IHA committee disrupted the meeting by forcibly entering the venue," said notice issued by the JNU Registrar.

The admin has alleged that even after the students were asked to let the meeting go on, they did not budge and instead became aggressive and started "chanting slogans." "They did not allow DoS Umesh

Kadam to be taken to hospital after he fell sick and his blood pressure shot up. The university doctors were also not allowed to check on Kadam by this unruly crowd of students," said the statement.

The notice said that Kadam's condition was getting worse and even his wife and two children pleaded with the students. "After a lot of effort, the DoS was shifted to the ambulance, but the students again surrounded the vehicle and did not let it move towards the hospital," according to the notice. Kadam was then confined in a doctor's office and the students surrounded the Health Centre.