Overview
- Jawaharlal Nehru University’s students’ union asked the Delhi Police to act under the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita and the SC/ST Act after two complaints cited remarks by Vice-Chancellor Santishree Dhulipudi Pandit in a published podcast.
- JNUSU cited timestamps from the recording that, according to the complainants, include claims about Dalits and other oppressed groups being in “permanent victimhood,” “playing the victim card,” and treating oppression like a “temporary type of drug.”
- The union requested a meeting with the Deputy Commissioner of Police and asked for protection for the complainants, and it said no reply had arrived at the time of reporting.
- Students and teachers released a public inquiry report that found the vice-chancellor “guilty of all the charges” and urged her removal, in a protest process that carries moral weight but no statutory force.
- News reports noted no immediate public response from the vice-chancellor or the university, and earlier campus protests drew detentions of more than 50 students and the arrest of 14 who spent three days in Tihar Jail.