Attempt to disrupt registration process: JNU reacts to attack on students, teachers
New Delhi/IBNS: Reacting to the attack on students and teachers at the campus of Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU), the institution has linked the incident with the motive of a group of people who are trying to disrupt the registration process of the Winter Semester.
In a long statement, the JNU Registrar said, "..From 1 January 2020, the Winter semester registration was going on smoothly.
"However, on 3rd January, a group of students opposing the registration process entered the Communication and Information Services (CIS) premises, covering their faces with masks and forcibly evicted the technical staff and made the servers dysfunctional.
"This led to the discontinuation of the registration process on 3rd January. However, on 4th January morning, the technical staff again made the CIS functional. Immediately, thousands of students started registering by paying the new hostel room rent.
"A group of students who are bent upon stopping the registration process, again entered the CIS premises with a criminal intent to make the servers dysfunctional. They damaged the power supplies, broke the optical fibres and made the servers dysfunctional again on 4th January around 1 PM disrupting the registration process. A police complaint was again filed against the miscreants.
"For the past few days, the group of agitating students also closed the building of some Schools preventing the non agitating students, staff and the faculty members. On 5th January, when the students who have registered in the winter semester wanted to enter these school buildings, they were physically prevented by the agitating students. Since the 5th January afternoon, the campus has witnessed scuffles at the Schools as well as inside the hostel premises between the groups of students who wanted to stop the registration and those who wanted to register and continue their studies."
As many as 26 students and teachers were injured when a group of masked people entered the campus and girls' hostels with sticks, rods and sledgehammers and vandalised the campus.
JNU Students' Union president Aishe Ghosh and professor Sucharita Sen were badly injured in the violence.
The injured including Ghosh were taken to AIIMS.
"I have been brutally attacked by goons who were masked," Ghosh told media just after the attack took place.
While the Left has been blaming the Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad (ABVP) for the violence, the latter has alleged that the Leftists had only vandalised the campus.
Meanwhile, Home Minister Shah has already ordered an inquiry into the incident.
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