Six-member JNU panel probes brutal attack on student

Varsity calls incident unfortunate,says there are no security issues on campus

Responding to the incident that led to the death of one student and left the other critically injured,the Jawaharlal Nehru University administration called the incident unfortunate and said it was not a security issue.

Both were seriously injured. Both the students were immediately rushed to hospital by JNU security. The boy was taken to the AIIMS and the girl to Safdarjung Hospital, the administration said in a release on Wednesday evening. University spokesperson Poonam Kudaisiya said such an incident had never occurred in the 44 years since JNU was established.

The JNU Rector went to the girl at Safdarjung Hospital and ensured that she was being given proper treatment, she said.

The incident occurred in classroom number 213 of the School of Language,Literature and Culture Studies around 11 am. JNU student Ashok attacked his classmate Roshni Gupta with an axe and then killed himself.

A panel of six faculty members including Chief Proctor P C Rath,Associate Dean of Students and I S Thakur conducted a preliminary inquiry. A case has also been registered with the police.

The entire university community is deeply shocked and grieved by this very unfortunate and unprecedented incident. JNU has started the process of consultation to build confidence among the students,especially girl students, Vice-Chancellor S K Sopory said.

The Vice-Chancellor,teachers association and students union of JNU appealed to the parents to keep calm and help ensure that the campus remains safe for everybody.

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President of the JNU Students Union V Lenin Kumar,who was with the group of students who took the injured to the hospital,has said that the incident has raised a gamut of serious issues and that we need to collectively come to terms with this act by addressing the issues at hand including the need for more extensive and intensive gender-sensitisation as well as building a more conducive environment within the university for students requiring redressal and support.

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