The Delhi Police has filed FIR against JNU students union leader Aishe Ghosh and 19 others for allegedly destroying the university server room on Jan 4. The alleged vandalism at the campus, which reportedly also involves thrashing of security guards, took place a day before the apparently planned attack on students and teachers by masked goons which left many teachers and students injured. JNUSU president Ghosh was also injured during the attacks.
According to the university, technical staff accessed the university's communication and information premises on Saturday morning after the students made the servers dysfunctional. The staff then got the servers back online but said a group of people re-entered the room around 1pm and again damaged the systems. The servers were again restored for a second time around 4pm.
The JNU administration has claimed the server incident was related to an ongoing standoff between students and the university over a hike in hostel fees. Aishe Ghosh, who was elected as JNUSU president last year, said the students' body had been trying hard to resolve the fee hike issue. "The Jawaharlal Nehru University Teachers' Federation (JNUTF) had threatened us recently amid the ongoing protest against fee hike. We only wanted an amicable resolution," she said. Delhi Police, which has come under heavy criticism for it conduct during the attack, yesterday filed a single FIR that named unidentified persons and clubbed together multiple complaints.