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33. On the Petitioner‟s failure to reply to the Show Cause Notice, the Respondent subsequently on April 25, 2016, after more than a month, passed an office order wherein it was stated that -

With reference to the 9 February 2016 incident of JNU Campus, the High Level Enquiry Committee (HLEC) has found Mr. Syed Umar Khalid (Registration Number-26954, Enrolment NO.11/61/MS/037, Year of Admission: 2011, M. Phil/Ph.D Student, Centre for Historical Studies, School of Social Sciences and a r/o. Room No. 268, Tapti Hostel) guilty on the following counts.

The University „Rules and discipline and proper conduct of students of JNU‟, Clause-3 - „Categories of misconduct and indiscipline‟, Category-II, Sub- Category (vi) prohibits „Furnishing false certificates or false information in any manner of the University‟.

As per the HLEC recommendation, Mr. Syed Umar Khalid has been found guilty of

a) giving requisition form and undertaking form as well in the false pretext to hold a "Poetry Reading-A Country without a Post Office" at Sabarmati Dhaba on 9 February 2016 from 5.00 pm to 7.30 pm.

b) not following the University procedure for holding the event.

c) misinforming the university security about the permission of event having been granted.

The University 'rules and discipline and proper conduct of Students of JNU', Clause-3 „Categories of misconduct and indiscipline‟, Category-II, Sub-Category

(xi) prohibits „Arousing communal, caste or regional feeling or creating disharmony among students.‟ As per the HLEC recommendation, Mr. Syed Umar Khalid had been found guilty of

(c) Putting up objectionable posters and setting up a pubic addressing system at Sabarmati ground.

These charges on the part of Mr. Syed Umar Khalid are very serious in nature, unbecoming of a student of JNU and calls for stringent disciplinary action against him.

The Vice-Chancellor, in exercise of his powers vested in him under Statute 32 (5) of the Statutes of the University, has ordered that Mr. Syed Umar Khalid be rusticated for the following semester (Monsoon Semester 2016-17) and has also imposed a fine of Rs.20,000 (Rupees twenty thousand only). He is directed to deposit the fine by 13 May 2016 and show the proof thereof to his office, failing which the Hostel facility will be withdrawn with immediate effect and further registration will not be allowed.