Woman APU Student Who Participated in February Event Disrupted by ABVP Given a Week to Respond to Suspension Notice
New Delhi: A woman scholar at Azim Premji University (APU) in Bengaluru, who reportedly participated in a February event disrupted by Akhil Bhartiya Vidyarthi Parishad (ABVP), has received an email informing her about her suspension from the college for two years. A press note dated May 8, 2026, issued on behalf of the students of Azim Premji University, stated, “The university claims that the Special Disciplinary Committee arrived at this decision after their investigation. However, no report of this investigation has been sent to the suspended student.”
“Other students who had been called by the Special Disciplinary Committee also received threatening emails stating that they are being let off with a warning, and future non-compliance with the university’s Code of Conduct would invite strict action,” the press release said.
An APU student who had participated in protests after the university administration contacted the police to file an FIR against students said, “Around 7-8 students had been called upon for a meeting by this committee. This particular student who has received email regarding suspension has been given a week’s chance for appeal. However, we don’t know what that appeal process will look like.” This student spoke to The Wire on the condition of anonymity.
“This Special Disciplinary Committee did not have any student representation. Another concern we have been raising is that this panel should ideally conduct an investigation as to what happened that day but it was constituted assuming that it was the students’ fault”, the same APU student said.
As reported earlier by The Wire, on February 24, around twenty ABVP members had vandalised Azim Premji University’s Sarjapur road campus claiming that a discussion related to the alleged mass rape of Kashmiri women in Kunan Poshpora (1991) by Indian Armed Forces “promoted anti-national thoughts.”
The event had been organised by Spark APU Reading Circle.
The college administration later said that “the event did not happen” and the protesters were “misinformed”. APU registrar Rishikesh B.S. also filed a complaint at Sarjapur Police Station, accusing students associated with Spark Reading Circle of instigating trouble at the university and “defaming” it.
The Wire tried reaching out to the student who has received the notice of suspension but was informed she does not wish to speak with the media as of now. There is no clarity whether the suspension order is in response to the student participating in the February event or in the protests that followed the FIR against her fellow students.
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