JNU Chancellor K. Kasturirangan on Saturday visited the varsity to take stock of situation.
His visit came amid protests rocking the varsity over the arrest of JNU Students’ Union president and police searching several others in connection with sedition charges. He held a meeting with JNU administration and met student and teacher representatives.
“We briefed him about the situation on the campus during the meeting. We assured him there was no police patrolling inside the campus or a crackdown on the students on Friday. The police came to Brahmaputra Hostel and took Kanhaiya away and nobody else was attacked,” JNU Registrar Bhupinder Zutshi said.
Meanwhile, four Deans of JNU have written to the Vice-Chancellor to convey their protest against the manner in which the police “crackdown” was “allowed by the University”. The letter was signed by C. P. Chandrasekhar, the Dean of the School of Social Sciences; Anuradha Chenoy, the Dean of the School of International Studies; Rekha Kamath, the Dean of the School of Languages and Bishnupriya Paul, the Dean of the School of Arts and Aesthetics.
