Penalised JNU students burn copy of ordersheet

Students of the Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU), against whom the authorities have announced disciplinary action from expulsion to fines, burnt the copy of the ordersheet on Tuesday and said they will not comply with the penalties slapped against them.

The JNUSU president, Kanhaiya Kumar, declared that the students will start a hunger strike on Wednesday against the penal action announced by the JNU administration based on the recommendations of a university-appointed high level inquiry committee.

“We don’t believe in the committee nor the penalties imposed on us, which is why we will burn the report,” Kumar, who was slapped Rs 10,000 besides Umar Khalid and Anirban Bhattacharya — who have been removed for six months, banned from entering into campus for five years chronologically — said in a press conference on the campus this afternoon. Kumar ruled out going to court against the committee’s recommendations. “We had objected to the high-level committee earlier. It wasn’t a democratic committee...

The head (of the committee) Rakesh Bhatnagar ran a movement called India Against Reservation,” he said. The penalised students alleged that they were neither given the full report not told of the exact charges against them.”