‘Threatening slogans’: IIT Delhi Director warns protesters of disciplinary action
The Director of IIT Delhi has threatened disciplinary action against students protesting against systemic issues following a series of student suicides. Students claim their protests are peaceful, while the administration cites the disruption of campus life and the use of threatening language as grounds for potential action.
Why it matters
This reflects ongoing tensions between academic administrations and student bodies regarding mental health support and campus safety.
IIT Delhi Director Rangan Banerjee on Friday threatened disciplinary action against student protesters for “disrupting the peaceful functioning of the campus, including residential areas, classes, academic and other activities”.
In an e-mail to all students, the Director said the institute has been engaging with their representatives in good faith. “Unfortunately, the situation escalated on the night of Thursday... from 10.30 p.m. to 12.30 a.m., a group of protesters extended their agitation into the campus residential zones,” it stated.
Mr. Banerjee said they resorted to “unsavoury, humiliating and threatening language in their slogans”. This, he said, compromised the “safety, privacy, and peace of faculty members and their families, including young children and elderly dependents”.
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