A day after JNU student Anmol Rattan surrendered before police after a fellow PhD scholar accused him of raping her, the JNU students and teachers on Thursday demanded that he be suspended from the university.
The students and teachers demanded that the university should be declared out of bounds for the scholar to ensure safety of the complainant. Also, scores of students of the varsity staged a protest outside Delhi Police headquarters demanding that the force refrains from revealing information which could reveal identity of the victim.
“We are extremely dismayed to know that three days after the complaint has been lodged, the accused is yet to be suspended or declared out of bounds from the university, so that safe conditions of complaint and testimony for the complainant may be maintained... We demand that this be done forthwith. This failure to act has tarnished the image of the JNU administration quite severely,” the JNU teachers said in a joint statement.