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The last page of JNU’s High-Level Enquiry Committee (HLEC) report — listing the recommendation of punishments to be given to students in connection with the February 9 event on campus — which was hitherto kept private, has now come out in the public domain.
Incidentally, of the 14 students, including Ashutosh Kumar and Komal Mohite (whose hostel facility has been withdrawn temporarily) on whom a fine of Rs 20,000 each was recommended, the JNU administration was unable to identify the surname and centre of two students — Anjali and Bhawna. In the columns that specify students’ centres, theirs reads ‘cannot identify’.
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HLEC Chairman Rakesh Bhatnagar had earlier told The Indian Express that the committee had issued call letters to “22 Anjalis” as they were unable to identify which Anjali was the organiser.
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The report also refers to JNU student Anirban Bhattacharya as a “repeat offender”. He was earlier issued a showcause notice for holding a programme despite permission being denied.
The page was made public as draft material reply after three Lok Sabha MPs from the CPI (M) — P Karunakaran, Mohammad Salim and Badaruddoza Khan — asked questions regarding the HLEC report and its punishment. As per the recommendations, the final punishments given to students are exactly what the five-member committee comprising professors Rakesh Bhatnagar, H B Bohidar, Suman K Dhar, G J V Prasad and Ummu Salma Bawa had recommended.
The committee had recommended that Anirban be rusticated till July 15 and then declared out of bounds from the campus w.e.f July 23 for five years, the strictest punishment given to any student. It also made a note that he was a “repeat offender”.
It also recommended rustication of one semester and two semesters respectively for Umar Khalid and Kashmiri student Mujeeb Gattoo, and fines of Rs 10,000 each on JNUSU president Kanhaiya Kumar and JNUSU joint secretary Saurabh Sharma.
Meanwhile, Khalid was rushed to AIIMS Sunday after his sugar and sodium-potassium levels fell significantly. Fourteen students have been sitting on an indefinite hunger strike demanding revocation of the punishment meted out to them in connection with the February 9 event where anti-India slogans were allegedly raised.
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