PTI, NEW DELHI: JNU student Umar Khalid today vowed to challenge in court a university panel’s recommendation upholding his rustication in connection with the February 9, 2016 incident against Afzal Guru’s hanging, during which anti-national slogans were allegedly raised on the campus.
In a statement released on social media, Khalid said the students would not “lie low” on their portrayal as “criminals”.
This was the third time in the past two years that the administration had come up with a rustication order against him in the case — an order that had been twice set aside by the courts, he said.
“We have been portrayed as criminals. With the pretext of the recent order of the farcical ‘high level’ enquiry (read drama) of the JNU administration, they are claiming that their fiction has been ‘validated’. I want to state categorically, that we are all being targeted in a systematic and a malafide manner by an enquiry that was prejudiced against us from day one,” he said.
“We once again reject this farce of an enquiry along with its findings and verdict. It is against all principles of natural justice, and is riddled with contradictions, lies and malice which will soon be exposed again. We will once again challenge this in court,” he added.
