Safoora Zargar Jamia Milia Islamia university bans entry of activist Safoora Zargar
Delhi: Jamia Milia Islamia has banned research scholar and activist Safoora Zargar from entering the university campus, citing the protests and marches organised by her on its premises, media reports said.
"It has been observed that Ms. Safoora Zargar (ex student) has been involved in organizing agitations, protests and marches on the campus against the irrelevant and objectionable issues to disturb the peaceful academic environment with few students who are mostly outsiders. She is instigating innocent students of the University and trying to use the University platform for her malafide political agenda along with some other students.
"Further, she is hampering the normal functioning of the institution. In view of above, the Competent Authority, for maintaining peaceful academic environment across the campus, has approved campus on ex-student Ms. Safoora Zargar with immediate effect," the office order read.
Safoora Zargar was charged under the stringent Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act, or the UAPA, in April 2020 in connection with the Delhi riots.
She was granted bail on humanitarian grounds as she was pregnant at the time.
The university proctor in a written order stated that the participation of multiple students in protests in support of Zargar 'is a gross violation of Jamia’s rules and regulations, and viewed separately by the Jamia authorities'.
After Zargar was removed as a student of the university on 29 August.
Since then she and her supporter Jamia students have been agitating demanding her readmission and extension to submit her thesis.
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