Ambedkar University Delhi has suspended 11 students for allegedly clashing with security personnel during a protest at the institute’s Kashmere Gate campus on Tuesday, a student involved with the demonstrations told Scroll on Friday.
In the orders issued on Wednesday to suspend the students, the university administration alleged that they misbehaved with security personnel and attempted to break a campus gate.
The alleged incident occurred before a proposed screening of Anand Patwardhan’s documentary Jai Bhim Comrade at the campus’s Wall of Democracy on the 16th day of a sit-in protest by the All India Students Association-led students’ collective of the university, reported The Indian Express.
The students are protesting against a circular issued by the university on July 31 that mandated giving four working days’ notice before organising demonstrations, rallies, marches and other public gatherings on campus, reported Deccan Herald.
They have also demanded that iron gates and barriers on campus be removed, the fee waiver for PhD students be waived and completion of faculty recruitment.
Ahead of the screening on Tuesday, security personnel tore down posters of the documentary, switched off the electricity on the campus at around 6 pm and assaulted students, The Indian Express quoted AISA as alleging.
Clothes of some female students were reportedly torn.
However, the university claimed that the protesting students damaged property on the campus and clashed with the security...