LU expels 6 law students for assaulting employee

  • | Monday | 25th March, 2019

On February 5, the accused students had an argument with an employee at the registrar office on the LU's second campus over a petty matter.Later, the students barged into the employee's residence and assaulted him. Acting on the victim's complaint, LU authorities suspended six students and issued show cause notices to them on February 6.A committee was also formed to probe the incident. The report recommended that three LLB students - Akhand Pratap Singh, Alok Kumar and Avinash Tewari - be expelled with immediate effect and barred from taking admission in the university and its affiliated colleges in the future. They also allegedly misbehaved with female members of his family. LUCKNOW: Lucknow University on Sunday expelled six law students for assaulting a non-teaching employee.While three of them have been expelled with immediate effect, the other three have been barred from taking admissions in the university in the future.The decision was taken after a committee probing the incident found the charges against the accused true.In its report (TOI has a copy of it) submitted to registrar office on Sunday, the committee stated that the act of the six accused students was 'violent and criminal' in nature.

LUCKNOW: Lucknow University on Sunday expelled six law students for assaulting a non-teaching employee.While three of them have been expelled with immediate effect, the other three have been barred from taking admissions in the university in the future.The decision was taken after a committee probing the incident found the charges against the accused true.In its report (TOI has a copy of it) submitted to registrar office on Sunday, the committee stated that the act of the six accused students was 'violent and criminal' in nature. The report recommended that three LLB students - Akhand Pratap Singh, Alok Kumar and Avinash Tewari - be expelled with immediate effect and barred from taking admission in the university and its affiliated colleges in the future. The other three students - Param Veer Verma, Gaurav Dubey and Ratnesh Singh - can be allowed to complete their LLB course but will be asked to submit an undertaking that they will not indulge in any indiscipline till the end of session and will not seek admission in LU and its affiliated colleges in the future. On February 5, the accused students had an argument with an employee at the registrar office on the LU's second campus over a petty matter.Later, the students barged into the employee's residence and assaulted him. They also allegedly misbehaved with female members of his family. Acting on the victim's complaint, LU authorities suspended six students and issued show cause notices to them on February 6.A committee was also formed to probe the incident.

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