New Delhi: Amid demands from teachers and students that the JNU administration should seek JNUSU president Kanhaiya Kumar's release and dropping of sedition charge, the varsity today said both the issues are beyond its control.
The varsity authorities also said that they are receiving messages from across the country requesting "firm action" so that similar incidents don't happen in future.
"We have not arrested Kanhaiya, we have also not charged anyone with sedition. It is for the police and court to take a call in this matter. Both these demands are beyond our control," JNU Registrar Bhupinder Zutshi told PTI.
A meeting of the top JNU officials, chaired by Vice Chancellor yesterday, deliberated on return of the five students to the campus but could not take a decision whether police should be allowed to enter the campus to arrest them or the students should be asked to surrender.
The Vice Chancellor had also called a meeting of Deans of all the schools and chairpersons of all the special centres to apprise them about steps being taken to restore normalcy on campus.
The five students, Umar Khalid, Anirban Bhattacharya, JNUSU general secretary Rama Naga, Ashutosh Kumar and Anant Prakash had gone missing from the campus since February 12 after Kanhaiya Kumar was arrested on sedition charge for allegedly raising anti-India slogans in a controversial event at the campus.
The varsity authorities also said that they are receiving messages from across the country requesting "firm action" so that similar incidents don't happen in future.
"We have not arrested Kanhaiya, we have also not charged anyone with sedition. It is for the police and court to take a call in this matter. Both these demands are beyond our control," JNU Registrar Bhupinder Zutshi told PTI.
A meeting of the top JNU officials, chaired by Vice Chancellor yesterday, deliberated on return of the five students to the campus but could not take a decision whether police should be allowed to enter the campus to arrest them or the students should be asked to surrender.
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The Vice Chancellor had also called a meeting of Deans of all the schools and chairpersons of all the special centres to apprise them about steps being taken to restore normalcy on campus.
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The five students, Umar Khalid, Anirban Bhattacharya, JNUSU general secretary Rama Naga, Ashutosh Kumar and Anant Prakash had gone missing from the campus since February 12 after Kanhaiya Kumar was arrested on sedition charge for allegedly raising anti-India slogans in a controversial event at the campus.
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