JNU students on Friday alleged that a classroom where a movie screening was going on as a part of the academic curriculum was raided by the varsity’s security.
JNU students on Friday alleged that a classroom where a movie screening was going on as a part of the academic curriculum was raided by the varsity’s security. However, the university officials said that they did not have any intention to raid or disrupt the screening, but were being extra vigilant considering the recent events on the campus. The JNUSU has received a letter from a group of students urging it to take the issue to the administration. The matter pertains to the Centre of Law and Governance where Anand Patwardhan’s Father, Son and Holy War was being screened on March 23.
JNUSU vice-president Shehla Rashid Shora said, “I have got a complaint that a guard accompanied by his supervisor raided the ongoing movie screening which is a part of one of the offered papers to M.Phil students. The students union will raise the issue of this classroom surveillance with the administration.”
On the condition of anonymity, a student of the same department, said, “They intervened on the pretext of a so-called anonymous complaint that had been registered to the security control room. However, on demanding some circumstantial proof of the registered complaint by the students who were present in the seminar room, it could not be presented.”
“The two guards questioned about the movie that was being screened and whether we have the permission to screen it or not ” another student, who was present at the screening, said.
