Overview
- Students who began an indefinite hunger strike on October 12 have re‑erected a protest camp near Gate No.7 after being evicted, pressing for restoration of the centrally elected Jamia Millia Islamia Students’ Union.
- Students and AISA say security personnel switched off lights and forcibly removed protesters in the early hours of October 17, while the university and Delhi Police say guards acted in self‑defence and only those trying to break a gate were removed.
- An order signed by Chief Proctor Mohammad Asad Malik has rusticated one student for a year and suspended two others for six months, barring them from campus with provisions for disciplinary review or appeal.
- The university temporarily closed the Dr Zakir Husain Library and the Old Library for security reasons and kept several gates closed with police and barricades in place as national student leaders joined the demonstrations.
- Protesters demand revocation of penalties, the chief proctor’s resignation and an independent inquiry while the administration points to elected subject associations as its alternative to a central union, a dispute that could affect student access to facilities and campus governance.