NEHU set up inquiry into Tura campus incident

Syllad | The Rising MeghalayaApril 12, 2019

SHILLONG: The authority of the North Eastern Hill University (NEHU) has constituted an inquiry committee to probe into the recent incident at its Tura campus.

The decision was taken at a meeting held between the NEHU vice chancellor Professor SK Srivastava and the members of the North Eastern Hill University Students’ Union (NEHUSU) on Friday.

This came after the authority of the NEHU Tura campus and the NEHUSU had filed complaints against each other.

The pro vice chancellor of the Tura campus in his FIR had alleged the leaders of the students’ union, who had conducted a two-day official visit to the campus, for indulging in pelting stones at his residential quarter.

Countering this, the NEHUSU had also filed a complaint against the pro vice chancellor, and proctor of the Tura campus for racially abusing its members and also against the labourers for eve teasing its woman leader.

After the meeting, adviser of the union Rangdajied Marwein told reporters that they have demanded the immediate setting up of an inquiry committee, upon which the vice chancellor had agreed, for resolving the matter amicably.

“However, we have made it very clear that in the process of this inquiry committee, if there is any arrest against any of the 9-member delegation who went to Tura campus, the NEHUSU and the Joint Action Committee comprises of different organisations in the university will no longer have any discussion with the administration and if there is any escalation in the campus, the union will take no responsibility for it,” he warned.

Asked, Marwein said actually the matter was mutually resolved at the Tura campus and it was agreed that let by gones be by gones but while the delegation was on their way to Shillong, a press release and an FIR was made by the Tura campus authority against the union.

“This was despite the fact that the NEHUSU president had already forgiven the proctor of the Tura campus. We have no option but to defend ourselves as manhandling a woman is a very serious charge. Our president had to also file an FIR against the pro vice chancellor, proctor and labourers of the Tura campus,” he added.

Earlier, NEHUSU president G Majaw informed that the committee will be headed by Professor Desmond Kharmawphlang even as she hoped that the students’ union will achieve its demands.

“We have demanded the Tura campus to tender apology and to drop all charges against us,” she said.