6 Aliah University students suspended
Kolkata: Aliah University has suspended six students for confining the Vice-Chancellor, some officers and faculty members and using abusive and derogatory language against them.
"Faculty members of all departments of the university and the officers, including the vice chancellor, have unanimously resolved to suspend six students for unlawful activities. They have been barred from entering the campus and their hostel boardership have also been cancelled. The disciplinary committee will conduct a probe and recommend on the punishment , if any. Then , the matter will be placed before the executive committee for necessary action," said Mohammad Ali, vice chancellor of Aliah University.
These six students will not be able to sit for the semester examinations scheduled to be held from December 2. Five of them are undergraduate students in various engineering streams while one is a research scholar. Their attendance, as per university records is less than 20 percent.
On November 20, when the vice chancellor was chairing a meeting on the preparation of the first convocation of the university, a group of 30 students started agitating and shouting slogans in front of the meeting hall. The meeting was shortened and when the vice chancellor came out of the seminar room and proceeded towards his office chamber and the agitating students followed him shouting derogatory remarks and abusive slogans.
"They didn't submit any deputation or charter of demands and demanded that they their semester fees should be waived. We asked them to submit their demands through proper procedure but they refused and continued their protest, the entire night and went on hurling abuses at the vice-chancellor and other faculty members," a senior official of the university said.
The vice-chancellor was also stopped from holding an urgent meeting with the officers and faculty members on November 22. During the course of their agitation some teachers were also manhandled.
"It is not possible for any university to waive semester fees for all students. But if anybody faces difficulty he can apply for relaxation of fees and the university is ready to offer special consideration. But such unlawful activities and jeopardizing of normal activities cannot be tolerated," the official said.
