Overview
- The order, effective 17 February, prohibits public meetings, processions and demonstrations for one month unless withdrawn earlier.
- It bars assembly of five or more people, slogan-shouting, speeches and carrying items such as mashals, beacons or torches, citing risks to safety and public peace.
- DU referenced an ACP Civil Lines directive and Home Ministry notifications as the administrative basis, describing the curbs as an internal preventive step.
- The move follows recent incidents on North Campus, including a 13 February confrontation that led to cross-FIRs at Maurice Nagar and a 12 February incident involving historian S. Irfan Habib.
- Student and teacher groups denounced the order as a blanket clampdown, with DUTA urging a rollback and warning of disruptions to scheduled campus events, while the Vice-Chancellor appealed for restraint as the Supreme Court’s stay on the UGC regulations remains in place.