[Reader-list] Jamia Millia University should be prosecuted

[srirang jha]

Jamia Millia Islamia is setting a wrong example by providing legal aid to
the accused in Delhi bomb blast. The University exists for education and
nothing else. Our constitution provides for legal assistance to any one who
cannot afford a lawyer. So the students of JMI who are arrested for their
alleged role in the Blast may get legal assistance from the Legal Aid Cell
of the Supreme Court of India.
I do not understand why an intellectual like Mushirul Hasan would indulge in
such a pastime as this. Let the law of the land take its course.

Srirang Jha

On Wed, Sep 24, 2008 at 6:44 PM, <radhikarajen at vsnl.net> wrote:

> Unfortunately, this attitude and action of the institutions and NGOs which
> makes them communal. It only gives more courage to be fundamentalists in
> secular society be it for a hindu or a muslim or a christian, if you have
> support to be fanatic why not. !
>
> Regards.
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Aditya Raj Kaul <kauladityaraj at gmail.com>
> Date: Wednesday, September 24, 2008 12:55 am
> Subject: [Reader-list] Jamia Millia University should be prosecuted
> To: sarai list <reader-list at sarai.net>
>
> > Jamia Millia University should be
> > prosecuted<http://offstumped.nationalinterest.in/2008/09/23/jamia-
> > millia-university-should-be-prosecuted/>
> >
> > *The Jamia Millia Islamia University would provide legal aid to two
> > suspended students who have been arrested by Delhi Police for being
> > allegedly involved in the serial blasts in the
> > capital<http://offstumped.nationalinterest.in/2008/09/19/war-on-
> > terror-offstumped-salute-to-indias-pride/>.
> > *
> >
> > **
> >
> > *"Legal aid would be provided till they are not found guilty," varsity
> > spokesperson Rakshanda Jaleel on Tuesday said.*
> >
> > Offstumped has unearthed the Jamia Millia Islamia Act of
> > 1988<http://education.nic.in/cd50years/x/7H/8M/7H8M0101.htm>
> > .
> >
> > There is no provision within this act for the University to
> > provide legal
> > aid to students, period, forget personal or university related,
> > guilty or
> > not guilty.
> >
> > Its powers are very clear.
> >
> > Please visit the following link for more -
> > Jamia Millia University should be
> > prosecuted<http://offstumped.nationalinterest.in/2008/09/23/jamia-
> > millia-university-should-be-prosecuted/>
> >
> > PTI reports
> >
> > *The Jamia Millia Islamia University would provide legal aid to two
> > suspended students who have been arrested by Delhi Police for being
> > allegedly involved in the serial blasts in the
> > capital<http://offstumped.nationalinterest.in/2008/09/19/war-on-
> > terror-offstumped-salute-to-indias-pride/>.
> > *
> >
> > **
> >
> > *"Legal aid would be provided till they are not found guilty," varsity
> > spokesperson Rakshanda Jaleel on Tuesday said.*
> >
> > Offstumped has unearthed the Jamia Millia Islamia Act of
> > 1988<http://education.nic.in/cd50years/x/7H/8M/7H8M0101.htm>
> > .
> >
> > There is no provision within this act for the University to
> > provide legal
> > aid to students, period, forget personal or university related,
> > guilty or
> > not guilty.
> >
> > Its powers are very clear. -
> > Jamia Millia University should be
> > prosecuted<http://offstumped.nationalinterest.in/2008/09/23/jamia-
> > millia-university-should-be-prosecuted/>
> >
> > PTI reports
> >
> > *The Jamia Millia Islamia University would provide legal aid to two
> > suspended students who have been arrested by Delhi Police for being
> > allegedly involved in the serial blasts in the
> > capital<http://offstumped.nationalinterest.in/2008/09/19/war-on-
> > terror-offstumped-salute-to-indias-pride/>.
> > *
> >
> > **
> >
> > *"Legal aid would be provided till they are not found guilty," varsity
> > spokesperson Rakshanda Jaleel on Tuesday said.*
> >
> > Offstumped has unearthed the Jamia Millia Islamia Act of
> > 1988<http://education.nic.in/cd50years/x/7H/8M/7H8M0101.htm>
> > .
> >
> > There is no provision within this act for the University to
> > provide legal
> > aid to students, period, forget personal or university related,
> > guilty or
> > not guilty.
> >
> > *Unless of course the University wants to make the argument that
> > providinglegal aid to Terrorists is providing a facility to
> > promote "national
> > integration, secularism and international understanding",
> > Offstumped demands
> > the Union HRD Ministry to pull up the University Officials for
> > acting way
> > beyond what the law provides for, failing which they must face
> > prosecutionfor aiding and abetting terrorism.*
> >
> > Its powers are very clear. -
> > http://offstumped.nationalinterest.in/2008/09/23/jamia-millia-
> > university-should-be-prosecuted/
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