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JNUTA slams rustication decision, seeks VC's removal
The Morning Standard
|February 04, 2026
THE Jawaharlal Nehru University Teachers’ Association (JNUTA) on Tuesday strongly condemned the JNU administration’s decision to rusticate all four office bearers of the Ja-waharlal Nehru University Students’ Union, along with its former president, calling it an “unprecedented” assault on democratic rights on campus.
In a statement issued a day after the rustication orders were announced, the teachers’ body said the action was not merely directed against a few individual students but amounted to a direct attack on the collective democratic rights of the university's student community. The administration has also imposed heavy fines on the students and declared the campus “out of bounds” for them for two semester
This story is from the February 04, 2026 edition of The Morning Standard.
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