Resolution Condemning Violence on the University Campus
The DUTA expresses shock and dismay at the brutal violence witnessed against students and teachers at Ramjas College and in the University campus on over 21st and 22nd February 2017. It condemns the attempts by the ABVP of repeatedly answering ideas with physical mob violence and to act as a censor of what may or may not be considered intellectually and culturally acceptable ideas within the context of a university.
The DUTA holds the University Administration squarely responsible for this unfortunate occurrence and feels that it has repeatedly refused to take action against the same student group that assaulted a teacher in SRCC in June 2016 and attacked and harassed the Dean of the Faculty of Law in November and December 2016. Allowing mobsters and anti-social elements to get away with impunity has emboldened them and the DUTA office-bearers were themselves at the receiving end of their physical aggression in Daulat Ram College in July 2016.
The DUTA categorically demands that the VC set up an enquiry against the perpetrators of the violence meted to students and teachers and press upon the police to initiate due process of investigation and bring the perpetrators to book.
The DUTA also demands that the VC issue a public statement guaranteeing that, henceforth, the students and teachers of Delhi University will not be made to feel physically threatened or vulnerable for the ideas that they espouse publicly and the rule of law will prevail and arbitrate over any contentious issues in the future.
The DUTA also expresses solidarity with the Dean of the Faculty of Law and demands that those responsible for physically abusing her be punished.
The DUTA reiterates its belief and solidarity with the democratic values and freedom of expression enshrined in the Constitution and the credo of Unity in Diversity that forms the core value of our civil society.
| NANDITA NARAIN President, DUTA |
SANDEEP Secretary, DUTA |
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