There is a saying about JNU Campus “if you want to know actual meaning of freedom, go to JNU campus.” But, in the past few years, the JNU campus has become so insecure, especially for female students. We often hear the news that a girl is molested in campus, a group of boys hooted out to girls, or someone is whistling toward girls. The campus was not like this before. The campus was always safe for students, where people are walking midnight, roaming around ring road, going to library, eating at dhabas. Many students said that the campus is not paying attention towards safety of the students, even administration is taking harassment cases lightly, GSCash has been abolished in the campus and ICC is asking unreasonable questions whenever you go for any complaint. Recently, an incident took place with a girl named Sakshi Rajoriya, Sakshi and her friend was harassed by a person named Krishna Kant Jha, in the words of Sakshi, JNUSU had also become ineffective, thus Sakshi and her friends are sitting indefinite strike at JNU main gate.
Sakshi’s concerns in her own words-
SOS
As is already known about the unsettling incident of harassment that took place with me, Sakshi, and my friend, Vicky on the night of 30th and 31st March. It has been more than 30 hours since I first filed the complaint and no action whatsoever has been taken yet. There have been bunch of formalities, me and my friends have been at the admin, leaving our classes, demanding justice, and doing all we can while the perpetrators are roaming freely. It must be known that the person who harassed me and my friend, Krishna Kant Jha, resides in the same hostel as mine, and I am expected to go in the same hostel, the same corridors, the same mess, to face that person, who has caused me such mental harassment. Even the JNUSU has been ineffective beyond imagination, they go to talk to the proctor without the survivors, me and my friend, meddle in the same formalities and due processes that the admin has been known to use for nothing but delaying the process.
After witnessing the ineffectiveness of the JNUSU, we have decided to take the matter in our hand. We are going to sit on an indefinite protest at the JNU Main Gate, until our demands are met, which include immediate restraintment of Krishna Kant Jha from Sabarmati Hostel, making those who are not registered students out-of-bound from the campus, cancelling the registration of Krishna Kant Jha and Vikrant Kumar, and ensuring my and my friend’s safety in the campus.
I request the JNU students community to come and join me in this fight for justice until our demands are met. The incident is not an isolated occurrence but a matter of campus safety that requires urgent attention and action.
Sakshi Rajoriya
Chinese (Hons.) BA 2nd Year, JNU
