<p>An enquiry committee of the Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) has upheld the rustication of Umer Khalid in connection with a controversial event on the campus where anti-national slogans were purportedly raised on February 9, 2016.</p>.<p>The panel also upheld the imposition of a fine of Rs 10,000 the then JNU Student Union (JNUSU) president Kanhaiya Kumar in connection with the matter.</p>.<p>The JNUSU condemned the recommendations of the high-level committee, calling it “a political conspiracy” by the JNU administration.</p>.<p>The students union also vowed to take the battle with the JNU administration forward, appealing to the students' community and “democracy-loving citizens of the nation” to raise their voice against “the witch-hunting of students of JNU.”</p>.<p>Human Resource Development Minister Prakash Javadekar endorsed the enquiry panel's recommendation. "It's a court's decision. University has to implement it," he told reporters at a press conference on Thursday. </p>.<p>All legal-political remedies will be taken up to overturn the JNU order against Umer, Kanhaiya and others, the JNUSU said in a statement.</p>.<p>JNU vice-chancellor M Jagadesh Kumar had ordered for rustication of Khalid, a research scholar and a student union activist, and others as well as the imposition of fines on Kanhaiya and others, acting on the recommendation of a high-level committee which had probed the February 9 incident and held them “guilty of gross indiscipline.”</p>.<p>“The punishments recommended by the high-level enquiry committee (HLEC) have been set aside by the court twice earlier. The recent HLEC punishments are nothing but a political conspiracy by the JNU admin, flouting all norms of conducting a free and fair inquiry,” the JNUSU said.</p>.<p>Delhi police had booked Khalid, Kanhaiya others in connection with the case in 2016, slapping sedition charge against them under the Indian Penal Code (IPC).</p>.<p>“The February 9, 2016 incident was the BJP-RSS's main script against the JNU and the JNU students. Till today, even after 2 years, the Delhi police hasn't been able to file a charge sheet against the JNU students,” the JNUSU added.</p>
<p>An enquiry committee of the Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) has upheld the rustication of Umer Khalid in connection with a controversial event on the campus where anti-national slogans were purportedly raised on February 9, 2016.</p>.<p>The panel also upheld the imposition of a fine of Rs 10,000 the then JNU Student Union (JNUSU) president Kanhaiya Kumar in connection with the matter.</p>.<p>The JNUSU condemned the recommendations of the high-level committee, calling it “a political conspiracy” by the JNU administration.</p>.<p>The students union also vowed to take the battle with the JNU administration forward, appealing to the students' community and “democracy-loving citizens of the nation” to raise their voice against “the witch-hunting of students of JNU.”</p>.<p>Human Resource Development Minister Prakash Javadekar endorsed the enquiry panel's recommendation. "It's a court's decision. University has to implement it," he told reporters at a press conference on Thursday. </p>.<p>All legal-political remedies will be taken up to overturn the JNU order against Umer, Kanhaiya and others, the JNUSU said in a statement.</p>.<p>JNU vice-chancellor M Jagadesh Kumar had ordered for rustication of Khalid, a research scholar and a student union activist, and others as well as the imposition of fines on Kanhaiya and others, acting on the recommendation of a high-level committee which had probed the February 9 incident and held them “guilty of gross indiscipline.”</p>.<p>“The punishments recommended by the high-level enquiry committee (HLEC) have been set aside by the court twice earlier. The recent HLEC punishments are nothing but a political conspiracy by the JNU admin, flouting all norms of conducting a free and fair inquiry,” the JNUSU said.</p>.<p>Delhi police had booked Khalid, Kanhaiya others in connection with the case in 2016, slapping sedition charge against them under the Indian Penal Code (IPC).</p>.<p>“The February 9, 2016 incident was the BJP-RSS's main script against the JNU and the JNU students. Till today, even after 2 years, the Delhi police hasn't been able to file a charge sheet against the JNU students,” the JNUSU added.</p>