GNLU TRYING TO SAVE ITS IMAGE: HC

 Court makes observation while hearing suo motu PIL  about harassment of a queer student and rape  of a female student

The Gujarat High Court, hearing a suo motu PIL alleging harassment of a queer student of Gujarat National Law University and rape of a female student by her batchmate, on Wednesday said the institution is seemingly trying to cover up the issue to save its image. This observation was made by the division bench of Chief Justice Sunita Agarwal and Justice Aniruddha P Mayee while hearing a suo motu PIL (Public Interest Litigation) on a report published by Ahmedabad Mirror regarding the alleged incident.

“We fail to understand as to how, and in what manner, the institute is dealing with a report which was published in the newspaper on September 22, 2023, more so when the intimation about such alleged incident was received by the Registrar, GNLU, as per his own admission, on September 19, 2023,” the bench noted, referring to the affidavit filed by the GNLU Registrar.