IIT Delhi director flags 'unsavoury, threatening' slogans amid protest over student's death
Here's the latest protest news from across India:
IIT Delhi Director Rangan Banerjee has warned of disciplinary action against students "disrupting the peaceful functioning of the campus" by raising "threatening slogans" amid the ongoing protest over the alleged suicide of a 31-year-old MSc student.
Adding to this, Students stage protest at IIT Delhi following the death of an MSc Physics student. (X/Ashutosh Ranka) Banerjee noted that the protest "escalated significantly" on Thursday night, with demonstrations reaching campus residential areas.
Meanwhile, In an email to students on Friday, Banerjee wrote that a group of protesters demonstrated outside faculty housing between 10.30 PM and 12.30 AM and used "unsavoury, humiliating and threatening language in their slogans."
Notably, "Such behaviour compromises the safety, privacy, and peace of faculty members and their families, including young children and elderly dependents," he shared.
As per the latest buzz, The director shared the institute would act against those disrupting the functioning of the campus. "The Institute will take disciplinary actions against individuals disrupting the peaceful functioning of the campus including residential areas, classes, academic and other activities," Banerjee wrote.
In further updates, The Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Delhi, on Thursday reconstituted the external probe panel set up to examine the circumstances surrounding the death of a student, with retired Delhi High Court judge Mukta Gupta as its head.
On top of that, The development came a day after former Uttarakhand DGP Ashok Kumar, who was appointed as chair of the probe panel, recused himself from the committee citing "personal reasons," even as student protests continued on campus.
Source: Hindustan Times