JAWAHARLAL NEHRU UNIVERSITY

Press Note
05 January 2020

It is unfortuante that violence took place in JNU campus this evening. The JNU administration
strongly condemns any form of violence in the campus.

From 1 January 2020, the Winter semester registration was going on smoothly. However, on 3rd
January, a group of students opposing the registration process entered the Communication and
Information Services (CIS) premises, covering their faces with masks and forcibly evicted the
technical staff and made the servers disfunctional. This led to the discontinuation of the
registration process on 3rd January. A police complaint was filed immediately identifying the
students. However, on 4th January morning, the technical staff again made the CIS functional.
Immediately, thousands of students started registering by paying the new hostel room rent. A
group of students who are bent upong stopping the registration process, again entered the CIS
premises with a criminal intent to make the servers disfunctional. They damaged the power
supplies, broke the optical fibres and made the servers disfunctional again on 4th January
around 1 PM disrupting the registration process. A police complaint was again filed against the
miscreants.

For the past few days, the group of agitating students also closed the buildings of some Schools
preventing the non agitating students, staff and the faculty members. On 5th January, when the
students who have registered in the winter semester wanted to enter these school buildings,
they were physically prevented by the agitating students. Since the 5th January afternoon, the
campus has witnessed scuffles at the Schools as well as inside the hostel premises between
the groups of students who wanted to stop the registration and those who wanted to register
and continue their studies.

Around 4.30 PM, a group of students, who are against the registration process moved
aggressively from the front of the admin block and reached the hostels. The administration
immediatedly contacted the Police to come quickly and maintain law and order on the campus.
However, by the time police came, the students who are for the registration were beaten up by a
group of agitating students opposting the registration.

Some masked miscreants also entered the Periyar hostel rooms and attacked the students with
sticks and rods. Some of the security guards doing duties at these places were also badly
injured.

During the last couple of weeks, these agitating students also vandalized the admin block and
ransacked the office of the Vice Chancellor for which a few police complaints were filed.

It is unfortunate that a group of students with their violent means of protests are preventing
thousands of non-agitating students from pursuing their academic activities. The JNU

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administration stands by every student who wants to continue their academic programs
peacefully in the campus.

The JNU administration feels great pain and anguish for the students who have sustained
injuries in this violence. JNU is always known for peaceful and democratic protests. JNU
adminitration will not tolerate any form of violence on the campus. A police complaint is being
filed to bring the culprits to book. The violaters of University rules who are trying to distrupt the
peaceful academic atmosphere of the campus will not be spared.

JNU adminstration appeals to all the stakeholders of the University to maintain peace in the
campus and do not get provoked by any misinformation.

Registrar