Today, suspended students of Ambedkar University Delhi (AUD) were summoned before the Proctorial Committee following their arbitrary midnight suspension and forcible eviction by military and police forces on October 14.
Rather than providing transparency or due process, today’s proceedings further exposed the administration’s malicious political targeting and gross procedural violations. The proctorial committee claims that the 11 suspended students were identified via CCTV footage engaged in “vandalism.” However, these charges are entirely false and baseless. Notably, Piyush (BA Sociology, 2nd Year), one of the suspended students, was not present at the protest site even once, completely undermining the credibility of the administration’s claims and CCTV assertions. Despite explicit requests from the students, the Proctorial Committee refused to share any CCTV footage, official complaints, or details regarding the nature of the alleged incidents cited on September 10 and September 18 in the suspension letters.
The committee offered zero clear justification for maintaining the suspensions.The administration continues to bypass established statutory procedures. Shubham, (Councillor, MA Literary Arts), was denied entry to the campus following 14th October on grounds of suspension. He received his suspension letter only at 10:00 AM today and was ordered to appear before the inquiry committee at 11:30 AM—giving him barely 90 minutes’ notice and completely violating the mandatory 24-hour notice norm required for a fair hearing.
The suspensions were initially handed down at 8:00 PM on October 14 without any prior show-cause notice or opportunity for defense, followed by immediate police action that forcibly dragged students out of campus and threw away protest materials.
Students maintains that this entire process is a retaliatory sham designed to remove peacefully protesting students from the indefinite sit-in site, nullify the Karampura Campus Student Council, witch-hunt student activists and shield administrative officials—including Proctor Prof. Satyaketu Sankrit & Security Superintendent Dharmendra Kumar—from accountability over the physical violence, harassment, and communal threats inflicted upon students during the peaceful 17-day sit-in. The protesting students reiterate their demand for the immediate and unconditional revocation of all 11 suspensions, the complete opening of campus gates, an end to police presence inside university spaces, and a full inquiry into administrative violence. AISA
