Jamia Millia Islamia has banned the entry of student leader Safoora Zargar, on its campus, weeks after cancelling her MPhil admission and removing her as a student.
In addition, the university sent show-cause letters to a number of students who took part in demonstrations calling for Zargar to be re-admitted into the college, The Quint reported.
The university called the students’ actions “a gross violation of Jamia’s rules and regulations, and viewed separately by the Jamia authorities. Therefore, you are hereby directed to explain in writing why disciplinary action should not be taken against you.”
Zargar was arrested under the draconian UAPA law in a case related to the anti-Muslim pogrom in northeast Delhi during protests against the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA). She was granted bail in June 2020.
On 24 August this year, Zargar tweeted about how Jamia is threatening to cancel her MPhil admission. She wrote, “Since December 2021, I have been made to run from pillar to post for extensions that are easily given to other scholars in the university. I have faced severe abuse at the hands of my supervisor and my department.”
The university revoked her admission a few days later, on August 29, stating that Zargar had failed to submit her MPhil dissertation “within the maximum stipulated time of five semesters plus an additional semester of COVID extension (6th semester) that was also given to her, which ended on February 6, 2022.”
She has now been banned from the campus for “instigating innocent students of the University and trying to use the University platform for her malafide political agenda alongwith some other students.”
