Delhi University teachers have been physically assaulted by the private and personal guards of university Vice-Chancellor Deepak Pental. At least four teachers including Delhi University Teachers’ Association (DUTA) President Aditya Narayan Mishra have been injured in the assault. The incident occurred at about 11.00 am when they went to meet the Vice Chancellor at South Campus to request him to meet the agitating members of Academic Council on the issue of semester system.

“University teachers Sanjay, S K Mishra and Surendra Kumar have been injured in this attack”, Aditya Narayan Mishra told fachcha.com who himself got injury in hand.

“We are really stunned and shocked at Vice-Chancellor’s behaviour. No member of teaching community can expect such move by an academic head of the country’s largest central university. We went there to request him to meet the members of Academic Council, who have been sitting on dharna for last four days, the longest dharna by the AC members.

The Vice-Chancellor has now come on violence to prove himself right and mighty and to hide his malfunctioning like Cobalt-60 and autocratic imposition of semester system in some of the subjects by unilaterally passing the agenda despite dissents in the Academic Council meeting on Thursday night, said another teacher.

However, Vice-Chancellor, who later on met the teachers and promised to meet agitating members of Academic Council members, has not met the members as yet till evening. Members allege that the passed restructured course is different from the course passed by the department and it is clear violation of university acts too.