Coming out in support of SAR Gilani, a Delhi university teachers body has demanded that the professor be released and said the "colonial" sedition law under which he has been charged was being "misused to supress dissent" and should be scrapped.
A student from US, who was enrolled in Delhi University's St Stephens College for a short duration course in Sanskrit, was allegedly sexually harassed by a teacher, according to college authorities.
Geelani was called to the police station on Monday night where he was detained and questioned for several hours, and later arrested. After his arrest, he was taken to RML Hospital for a medical examination.
Delhi University's Academic and Executive Councils has approved the courses restructured from the Four-Year Undergraduate Programme to fit the new three-year format.
The Supreme Court on Tuesday refused to intervene in the University Grants Commission-Delhi University row over the four-year undergraduate programme and directed a DU professor who challenged the commission's direction for scrapping the course to approach the Delhi high court.
The ABVP members did not allow the AISA march to proceed and allegedly locked the students and teachers inside Ramjas College.
Activist and journalist Madhu Kishwar on Smriti Irani and the controversy over the four-year course offered by the Delhi University.
The fight over FYUP is between a highly controversial decision taken during the United Progressive Alliance rule and how the National Democratic Alliance government perceives it and how it is determined to resolve it in its own way, reports Sheela Bhatt.
Upasna Pandey/ Rediff.com spoke with senior professors and students who pointed out the inherent flaws in the existing sexual harassment grievance redressal mechanism at the institution and university level.
With the Delhi University still on a defiant path, the University Grants Commission on Wednesday night gave a fresh ultimatum to it to begin the admission process for the undergraduate classes dumping the controversial four-year course.
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