32. Maintenance of discipline among students of the University. - (1) All powers relating to discipline and disciplinary action in relation to students shall vest in the Vice-Chancellor.
(2)The Vice-Chancellor may delegate all or such of his powers as he deems proper to the Proctor and to such other persons as he may specify in this behalf.(3)Without prejudice to the generality of his powers relating to the maintenance of discipline and taking such action in the interest of maintaining discipline as may seem to him appropriate, the Vice-Chancellor may in the exercise of his powers aforesaid, order or direct that any student or students by expelled from any college or institution maintained by the University, Department, Special Centre or Specialised Laboratory, or be for a stated period rusticated or be not, for a stated period, admitted to a course or courses of study in any such college or institution, Department Special Centre, or Specialised Laboratory, or be fined in a sum of rupees that may be specified or be debarred from taking an examination or examinations for one or more years or that the results of the student or students concerned in the examination or examinations in which he has or they have appeared be cancelled.(4)The Principals, or as the case may be, the Heads of the Colleges, Institutions, Departments, Special Centres or Specialised Laboratories shall have the authority to exercise all such disciplinary powers over the students in their respective colleges, institutions, Departments, Special Centres or Specialised Laboratories as may be necessary for the proper conduct of such Colleges, Institutions Departments Special Centres or Specialised Laboratories.(5)Without prejudice to the powers of the Vice-Chancellor and the Proctor as aforesaid detailed rules of discipline and proper conduct shall be framed. The Principals or, as the case may be, the Heads of the Colleges, Institutions Departments, Special Centres or Specialised Laboratories may frame such supplementary rules as they deem necessary for the aforesaid purposes. Every student shall provide himself with a copy of these rules.
