JNU authorities have planned to seek legal opinion on action against students in connection with the Afzal Guru event during which anti-national slogans were allegedly raised.
Sources said that the chief proctor’s office is seeking legal opinion from the experts on the quantum of punishment to the students in connection with the February 9 event. “It is a sensitive issue and the university doesn’t intend to be unfair to anybody. Keeping the discipline norms in mind the quantum of punishment will be decided but it has to be made sure first that the penalty should be legally justified,” sources said.
While the university panel probing the issue had submitted its report on March 11, the varsity is yet to take a final call on the issue. However, JNU might likely see fresh round of protests in future if the authorities decide to press ahead with penal action against the students.
Show cause notices were issue to 21 students after the high-level committee of the university found them “guilty” of “violating university norms and discipline rules”, asking them to explain why disciplinary action should not be initiated against them.
