Jamia Millia University should be prosecuted

PTI reports

The Jamia Millia Islamia University would provide legal aid to two suspended students who have been arrested by Delhi Police for being allegedly involved in the serial blasts in the capital.

“Legal aid would be provided till they are not found guilty,” varsity spokesperson Rakshanda Jaleel on Tuesday said.

Offstumped has unearthed the Jamia Millia Islamia Act of 1988.

There is no provision within this act for the University to provide legal aid to students, period, forget personal or university related, guilty or not guilty.

Its powers are very clear.

Powers of the University. The University shall have the following powers,namely:-

(i) to provide for instruction in such branches of learning University. as the University may, from time to time, determine and to make provisions for research and for the advancement and dissemination of knowledge;

(ii) to promote the study of the religions, philosophy and culture of India;

(iii) to grant, subject to such conditions as the University may determine, diplomas or certificates to, and confer degrees or other academic distinctions on the basis of examinations, evaluation or any other method of testing, on persons, and to withdraw any such diplomas, certificates, degrees or other academic distinctions for good and sufficient cause;

(iv) to organise and to undertake extra-mural studies, extension services, and other measures for the promotion of adult education;

(v) to confer honorary degrees or other distinctions in the manner prescribed by the Statutes;

(vi) to provide, instruction, including correspondence and such other courses, to such persons as are not mem- bers of the University, as it may determine;

(vii) to institute Principalships, Professorships, Readerships, Lecturerships and other teaching or academic posts required by the University and to appoint persons to such Principalships, Professorships, Readerships, Lecturerships or other posts;

(viii) to create administrative, ministerial and other posts and to make appointments thereto;

(ix) to appoint persons working in any other University or organisation as teachers of the University for a specified period;

(x) to co-operate, collaborate or associate with any other University or authority or Institution in such manner and for such purposes as the University may determine;

(xi) to establish and maintain Schools, Institutions and such Centres, Specialised Laboratories or other units for research and instructions as are, in the opinion of the University, necessary for the furtherance of its objects;

(xii) to institute and award fellowships, scholarships, studentships, medals and prizes;

(xiii) to establish and maintain Halls for the students of the University;

(xiv) to make provision for research and advisory services, and for that purpose to enter into such arrangements with other institutions or bodies as the University may deem necessary;

(xv) to declare a Centre, an Institution, a Department, a School as an autonomous Centre, Institution or Department or School, as the case may be in accordance with the Statutes;

(xvi) to determine standards for admission into the University, which may include examination, evaluation or any other method of testing;

(xvii) to demand and receive payment of fees and other charges;

(xviii) to supervise the residences of the students of the University and to make arrangements for promoting their health and general welfare;

(xix) to make special arrangements in respect of women students as the University may consider desirable;

(xx) to regulate and enforce discipline among the employees and students of the University and take such disciplinary measures in this regard as may be deemed by the University to be necessary;

(xxi) to make arrangements for promoting the health and general welfare of the employees of the University;

(xxii) to receive donations and to acquire, hold, manage and dispose of any property, movable or immovable, including trust and endowment properties for the purposes of the University;

(xxiii) to borrow, with the approval of the Central Government, on the security of the property of the University, money for the purposes of the University;

(xxiv) to do all such other acts and things as may be necessary, incidental or conducive to the attainment of all or any of the objects of the University.

The last point is open ended but is clear that it is only relation to the “objects of the University”.

The objects of the University shall be to disseminate and advance knowledge by providing instructional, research and extention facilities in such branches of learning as it may deem fit and the University shall endeavour to provide to students and teachers the necessary atmosphere and facilities for the promotion of–

(i) innovations in education leading to restructuring of courses, new methods of teaching and learning, and integral development of personality;

(ii) studies in various disciplines,

(iii) inter-disciplinary studies;

(iv) national integration, secularism and international understanding.

?Unless of course the University wants to make the argument that providing legal aid to Terrorists is providing a facility to promote “national integration, secularism and international understanding”, Offstumped demands the Union HRD Ministry to pull up the University Officials for acting way beyond what the law provides for, failing which they must face prosecution for aiding and abetting terrorism.

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