New Delhi, July 3 -- Dr BR Ambedkar University Delhi (AUD) has extended the suspension of five students, citing an ongoing disciplinary inquiry linked to an April 11 incident involving alleged public obstruction and damage to government property.
The move has prompted backlash from the Students' Federation of India (SFI), which has termed the move arbitrary and aimed at crushing student activism.
An FIR dated April 29, filed by the university's Deputy Registrar (Estate) at the Kashmere Gate Police Station, accuses the students of "unauthorisedly restraining movement of the Senior Government Officials, Vice Chancellor and Registrar by locking the main gate."
The complaint states that the students "created hindrance in the passage and didn...