Not happy with the manner in which the so called “UGC fact-finding” team have shielded the Visva Bharati authorities in the sexual assault and blackmailing of ‘Our Sister from Sikkim,’ the Gorkha students who are currently studying at JNU have condemned the incidence and demanded action against the VB authorities.
In a press release the JNU Gorkha students have said that the ‘UGC fact-finding team’ are guilty and need to be prosecuted against “shielding of the deliberate act of concealing the involvement of Vishva Bharti University VC, Sushanta Dutta Gupta and other professors by the UGC fact finding team -in shielding the perpetrators and covering up the incident of sexual harassment of student from Sikkim.’
They have appealed the greater North-East students body to stand together with the ‘Student from Sikkim,’ and has appealed for wide-spread protest against the farce of an investigation undertaken by the UGC committee, which did not even meet the victim or her father, while preparing the report. In fact it may be recalled that the UGC fact-finding committee members had threatened the girl’s father of “dire consequences” when they were not allowed to meet the girl by her father, at the time desired by the UGC ‘fact finding committee’.
Questioning the “Values” that is being promoted through the VB authorities act or lack of it in this heinous s crime, Dawa Sherpa the student representative says, “our only question to Santineketan authorities-"Shantineketan is renowned in world for imparting ‘value education’ reflecting the vision of Rabindranath Tagore and it has taken great pride about it for about a century now. But shielding perpetrators of sexual violence, threatening complainant, undermining gender justice and abject indifference towards racial violence - is this the ‘new model of values’ for Santineketan?"
WILL THE STUDENT FROM SIKKIM EVER GET FAIR JUSTICE?
Source: The Darjeeling Chronicle
They have appealed the greater North-East students body to stand together with the ‘Student from Sikkim,’ and has appealed for wide-spread protest against the farce of an investigation undertaken by the UGC committee, which did not even meet the victim or her father, while preparing the report. In fact it may be recalled that the UGC fact-finding committee members had threatened the girl’s father of “dire consequences” when they were not allowed to meet the girl by her father, at the time desired by the UGC ‘fact finding committee’.
Questioning the “Values” that is being promoted through the VB authorities act or lack of it in this heinous s crime, Dawa Sherpa the student representative says, “our only question to Santineketan authorities-"Shantineketan is renowned in world for imparting ‘value education’ reflecting the vision of Rabindranath Tagore and it has taken great pride about it for about a century now. But shielding perpetrators of sexual violence, threatening complainant, undermining gender justice and abject indifference towards racial violence - is this the ‘new model of values’ for Santineketan?"
WILL THE STUDENT FROM SIKKIM EVER GET FAIR JUSTICE?
Source: The Darjeeling Chronicle
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