JNU row: Probe panel finds students guilty, recommends rustication of Kanhaiya, 4 others

New Delhi

The committee is understood to have recommended the rustication of five students by the university authorities for their role in the event, where anti-national slogans were allegedly raised, sources said.

They are JNU Students Union president Kanhaiya Kumar, Umar Khalid, Anirban Bhattacharya and two others. Umar Khalid and Anirban Bhattacharya, both Phd scholars, are in judicial custody.

The final decision on the implementation of the committee's recommendations will be taken by JNU Vice-Chancellor M Jagadesh Kumar and Chief Proctor A Dimri, the sources added.

"As per the report, some students have been found to have violated the university's rules and norms. There are standard provisions in the university rules to take action in such cases," a spokesperson of university said in a statement.

According to the statement, office of JNU's Chief Proctor would take further action by issuing show-cause notices to the students concerned who have been found to have violated the university's rules and norms.

The sources, however, said 21 students have been issued show-cause notices by the office of JNU's Chief Proctor. The action followed a meeting of the JNU authorities held to discuss the enquiry committee's report today.

The committee was given three extensions owing to the students' refusal to cooperated with it at the initial stage.

Earlier, the university had revoked the suspension of eight students after a high-level probe panel submitted its report on the incident.

The students who were suspended on February 12 for their alleged involvement in organizing the controversial event on the campus to mark the death anniversary of Parliament attack convict Afzal Guru included Kanhaiya Kumar, Umar Khalid, Anirban Bhattacharya, Ashutosh, Rama Naga, Anant Kumar, Shweta Raj and Aishwarya Adhikari.

Kanhaiya was arrested on the charges of sedition for participating in the event organized to hold a demonstration against the hanging of Parliament attack convict Afzal Guru.

Later, the court released him on interim bail for six months on a condition that he will not participate in any anti-national activity.

A day after the controversial event during which 'anti-national' slogans were allegedly raised, JNU constituted a five-member panel on February 10 to enquire into the incident.