Some unidentified miscreants broke into the house of Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) Professor Dhananjay Singh and decamped with valuables.
According to an First Information Report (FIR) registered in the case, Singh, who lives in the JNU campus and is the chairperson of the Centre for English Studies and Associate Dean of School of Language, Literature and Culture Studies, had left his house in the campus on March 17 for Lucknow. “He returned on March 24 and found that his house was ransacked. Singh claimed that the thieves broke into his house through a window and it was left open,” as per FIR. Meanwhile, the JNU Teachers' Association (JNUTA) claimed "lack of accountability and commitment towards the safety and security of campus residents in the past years".
It said from 2019 onwards, there have been 13 incidents of theft which point "towards the extreme vulnerability that the campus residents have been exposed to in the recent years".