Five member committee submits its report at Allahabad University

ALLAHABAD: The Five member fact finding committee, constituted by the vice-chancellor of

AU

, Prof R L Hangloo, to probe the person responsible for violence on the campus on June 5, have submitted its report to the varsity authorities.

The committee members watched the CCTV recording of all the cameras installed around the troubled area, barring the Union hall of AU which presently does not have such facility. The members also went through the reports that were published in various newspapers on the following day (June 6).

After extensive analysis of the situation on ground, the committee has found that along with the student leaders of AU, who were there near the VC’s office and leading the unrest, most of the trouble makers were not the bonafied students of AU and were ‘outsiders’.

While presenting its around two paged report, the committee has also mentioned the series of event that led to violence on the varsity campus on June 5. It has mentioned that following the orders of the

Allahabad High Court

in 2017, the orders were passed and inmates were asked to vacate the hostels.

Last week, the VC had constituted the committee, headed by the senior faculty member of the department of Chemistry and director college development council, Prof Jadhamba Singh. Other members of this all important committee include Prof V K Rai of the department of Political Science, Prof J N Tripathi of the department of earth and

planetary science

, Prof Ashish Saxena of the department of Sociology and varsity’s librarian, B K Singh. AU’s proctor Prof R S Dubey and dean student welfare Prof Harsh Kumar would be special invitee of the said committee.

AU PRO, who is also the dean student welfare (DSW), Prof Harsh Kumar said, “I was the special invitee in the committee which has submit its finding”.

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