Proctorial committee to probe event on Afzal Guru: JNU VC

The ABVP has also demanded that the ten students behind the event must be rusticated with immediate effect.

These sympathisers clashed with rival students group ABVP, when they tried to oppose it. The treacherous act has been caught on camera; the proof is out in the open; but no action has been taken either by the police or the JNU administration.

Committee for Release of Political Prisoners, a group comprising scholars and academics, expressed “serious concern” over the Centre’s “non-seriousness” to resolve the Kashmir dispute and also paid “tributes” to executed Jammu Kashmir Liberation Front (JKLF) founder Mohammad Maqbool Butt. A committee has been formed for the goal and is headed by the Chief Proctor of the university.

“A proctorial committee which can look into this and take view of the incident, we will not offer you a time-frame, the committee will look into the matter and determine what to do”, Kumar advised reporters right here.

Explaining the “incomplete information”, a varsity official said there was no mention of Afzal Guru in the permission letter.

Sources say that the university authorities had not given permission to hold any such program as they feared that it may lead to protests on the campus.

However, the organisers went ahead with the programme despite the cancellation of the permission, and held a “cultural programme”.

Agitated over the issue, ABVP members gathered outside VC office and shouted slogans demanding expulsion of the students who contributed to the “anti-national” activity.

By the evening the incident snowballed into a huge controversy with the members of Akhil Bhartiya Vidyarthi Parishad (ABVP) terming it anti-national and undemocratic in nature and demanding the expulsion of the organizers.