JNU received 151 sexual harassment complaints since 2017, data reveals

However, erstwhile asked astir the quality of the complaints and the enactment taken against the accused, JNU refused to supply information, citing confidentiality.

The determination to dismantle GSCASH successful 2017 has been a contentious issue, with the JNU Students’ Union and Teachers’ Association consistently demanding its reinstatement.

The relation reason that the ICC lacks the transparency and autonomy that GSCASH provided and operates nether administrative influence, undermining spot successful its processes.

The information shows that the highest fig of cases successful a azygous twelvemonth was reported successful 2018-19, with 63 complaints. Before the ICC’s formation, JNU had received 38 grounds cases successful 2016.

The COVID-19 pandemic years saw a important drop, with lone six complaints registered betwixt 2019 and 2021, apt owed to reduced field activity.

However, the numbers surged successful caller years, with 30 complaints each successful 2022-23 and 2023-24.

Seventeen cases were registered successful 2017-18, 63 successful 2018-19, 5 successful 2019-20, 1 successful 2020-21 and 5 successful 2021-22, the information showed.

In 2015, the Delhi Commission for Women (DCW) noted that JNU had the highest fig of intersexual harassment complaints among the city’s acquisition institutions with 51 cases reported successful a span of 3 years betwixt 2013 and 2015. It amounted to astir 50 per cent of specified complaints among Delhi’s acquisition institutions during that period.
Recently, respective cases person brought JNU nether aggravated scrutiny.

In April, a 2nd twelvemonth pistillate pupil staged an indefinite onslaught for 12 consecutive days connected field blocking the main entranceway constituent of the varsity aft alleged ‘inaction’ implicit her ‘sexual harassment’ ailment to the assemblage officials. The subsister and the supporters were aboriginal penalised by the varsity for staging the protest.

In October, arsenic galore arsenic 47 pistillate students filed a associated ailment with the ICC regarding alleged intersexual harassment and unit that occurred during a freshers’ enactment connected campus.

Similarly, successful April, JNUSU claimed a pistillate pupil of Centre for Chinese and South-East Asian Studies astatine the varsity was sexually harassed by her prof and inaction by the varsity medication implicit her ailment forced her to permission the campus.

The incidents person led to wide protests and raised questions astir the handling of complaints by the ICC.