Delhi HC sets aside DU’s order debarring PhD student over BBC documentary screening

The Delhi High Court Thursday set aside the order issued by Delhi University which had debarred a PhD scholar for a year for his alleged involvement in disturbance of law and order in the varsity during a bid to screen the BBC documentary, ‘India: The Modi Question’, in January.

A single-judge bench of Justice Purushaindra Kumar Kaurav said the university’s administrative authority did not offer PhD scholar and NSUI national secretary Lokesh Chugh an opportunity to be heard and that there was no consideration on Chugh’s submissions or explanation in the debarment order. Chugh is pursuing his PhD research from the Department of Anthropology, Faculty of Science.