Overview
- Students re-erected a protest camp near Gate No. 7 on Sunday after early-morning removals from Gulistan-i-Ghalib Garden and a weekend of clashes with campus security.
- The administration has suspended or rusticated several hunger-striking students in orders signed by Chief Proctor Mohammad Asad Malik, including one year-long rustication and shorter bans for others.
- Student groups and protesters say security guards switched off lights, beat and handed hunger strikers to police, while the university says guards acted in self-defence and Delhi Police say no formal mass detentions were recorded.
- Jamia announced a seven-member committee to meet protesters and examine demands, but the panel has not set a public timeline or said whether it will consider restoring the centrally elected Jamia Millia Islamia Students’ Union.
- The dispute traces to the 2006 dissolution of the union and turns on students’ claims that existing subject associations do not address cross-department issues; the immediate effects include closed libraries, blocked gates and wider pressure on campus life and academic access.