AG Trivedi also apprised the Court of other measures taken by the University. He mentioned the appointment of a sub-committee and also a new Internal Complaints Committee (ICC).
He assured the Court that it had succeeded in awakening all the concerned authorities.
“We’ve got awakened. Your lordship may record. We will see that…I’m making a statement as the officer of the court. I’m not instructed to make the statement. We will see that. I am also one of the members of the executing council so is my learned friend and a learned sitting judge of this honourable Court. We will meet every month regularly to see that what is being promised is being implemented or not,” he stated.
He added that his endeavour was to ensure that students at the University are taken out of their state of confusion. He informed the Court that the fact-finding committee had come up with the idea of a ‘Blind Google Drive’.
“They tried to see that each of the students of the institution, about 1200 students, was given that blind form and they were assured that, ‘Whatever you say, you say in your response. Your identity we will not come to be known.’ Initially only 11 responses came. So they waited for a month, once again repeated that exercise and they got 23 more,” he said.
Trivedi added that based on what these 34 students said, a victim could not be found.
To this, the Chief Justice responded by saying that the idea is to not find the victim but to eliminate distrust towards the institution amongst the students.
“Because they are the students of law. If they students of law are not able to voice their concerns, then how will they speak for others? They are supposed to speak for others. So that is the concern of ours,” she said.
Further, she cited the example of the West Bengal National University of Juridical Sciences (NUJS), where students’ voices are taken seriously.
“Law students should be such who can raise voice against anyone. They should not be having any kind of fear. Like in NUJS Kolkata Law School, students are managing the entire college and they can raise their voice against the director. Anything happens, they can sit on dharna. They should be given this kind of atmosphere,” the Chief Justice opined.
Source: Barandbench
