PUCSC elections: Student party leaders to be liable for violence: SSP

Tribune News Service

Chandigarh, August 7

SSP Kanwardeep Kaur today warned top leaders of Panjab University student parties that they would be held accountable if any of their party members was involved in any act of violence or illegal activity.

A meeting of the UT police officials and representatives of student parties was organised at the university in view of Panjab University Campus Student Council (PUCSC) elections, likely to be held early next month. The SSP told the party representatives that since outsiders or guests, who were not part of the university, had been barred from entering the campus, the campus could not be used to conduct meeting with political leaders. The representatives were advised to not involve mainstream leaders in election events on the campus.

The student parties were also asked to not resort to defacing buildings, walls, trees, floors, poles, etc, on the campus, as the act was punishable under the Defacement Act. The SSP also made it clear that nobody would be allowed to carry weapons, even licensed, on the campus.

DSP (Central) Gurmukh Singh, Sector 11 SHO Inspector Jaiveer Rana, Dean Students Welfare Prof Amit Chauhan, PU chief security officer Vikram Singh and wardens of hostels were also present in the meeting.