After taking suo motu cognisance of stories studies of alleged incidents of sexual harassment and queerphobia on the Gujarat Nationwide Regulation College (GNLU) in September final 12 months, the Gujarat Excessive Court docket on Wednesday disposed of the associated public curiosity litigation because it took on report the varsity’s registrar’s apology.
The bench of Chief Justice Sunita Agarwal and Aniruddha Mayee orally remarked that the court docket can be passing an in depth order, incorporating some strategies for the varsity to make the campus safer for its college students.
GNLU registrar Jagadeesh Chandra TG supplied his unconditional apology to the court docket on oath on Wednesday for being initially dismissive of the allegations by terming them to be “devoid of any substance”.
The bench had taken opposed notice of the registrar’s stance on the time, recording that he was making an “over anxious effort to hush the entire matter in a abstract manner”.
Apologising for the contents of his affidavit filed on October 10, 2023, quickly after the court docket had taken suo motu cognisance of the incidents, his apology affidavit said that he had “no intention” to ignore the incidents of sexual harassment on the college that are of “grave nature”.
He stated he had solely made such submissions in his earlier affidavit “within the quest of defending the respondent college (GNLU) with utmost sincerity”.
Acknowledging that the litigation is in public curiosity and never adversarial in nature, Jagadeesh assured in his affidavit that he’ll henceforth be “further diligent and train excessive warning, nice care and restraint” not solely in submitting affidavits however whereas discharging his responsibility.
Chief Justice Agarwal, in the meantime, orally remarked that the bench can be recording in its order that he be by no means given the cost of registrar.
“He’s not match to be a registrar. He could also be match to be a professor…Each particular person can not do administrative duties, many should not match for that,” the Chief Justice stated.