New Delhi: The High Court of Delhi, today, asked the Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) to file an affidavit showing the academic details of the students against whom the university authorities had filed a contempt petition for violating the court’s order to restrain protests within 100 meter of administrative block of JNU.
The court expressed its shock when it found out that the university knows nothing about those protesting students against whom the contempt case was filed. The court has adjourned the next hearing to 21 December.
The High Court of Delhi had given an order on 9 August, 2017, which restrained the students from protesting within 100 meters of the administrative block of the university and affecting the daily working.
The recent JNU students’ agitation against fee hike had affected the day to day working of administration block.
The Delhi Police had registered many FIRs against students for vandalism, damaging public property and others since the agitation against hostel fee hike began five weeks before.
