Amity IPU Suicide: Clean Chit to Authorities Even as 2 Profs Quit

The clean chit to authorities was issued after two professors resigned as per the demands of protesting students.

Pciture of Sushant Rohilla form 2015. (Photo Courtesy: Facebook/Sushant Rohilla)

An internal fact finding committee of the Amity Law School, run in affiliation with the Guru Gobind Singh Indraprastha University, gave a clean chit to the college authorities on Friday.

The committee submitted an interim report in case of a fourth year law student Sushant Rohilla who committed suicide after being barred from appearing in the sixth semester exams in May due to “shortage of attendance”.

The move comes hours after Director BP Singh Sehgal and Professor Isheeta Rutabhasini, who came under fire of student protests, resigned after being sent on forced leave.

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The seven-member committee which was to submit report today has sought some more time...and in view of the sentiments of students the two professors have submitted their resignation.

Savita Mehta, Spokesperson, Amity University

Demanding a probe into the incident, his family members and friends, had staged a protest outside the college on Tuesday, and alleged foul play by the authorities.

The committee found that the college authority had been liberal by extending all possible support to enable him appear the exam.

Rohilla’s attendance was only 29 percent, it said, which is under the permissible limit set by Guru Gobin Singh Indraprastha University and clause 12 of the Rule of the Bar Council of India (BCI).

Interim Report Claims College Tried to Help Rohilla

According to his family, Sushant and 19 other students, who were not permitted to take the exams, were promised that they will be allowed to take the exams and promoted to the next semester.

The report claimed that even after giving additional attendance for activities like moot court competitions, Rohilla’s attendance was as low as 43 percent.

The college had informed his parents many a times through e-mails.

The student and his father were intimated by Amity Law School, Delhi (ALSD) on 11 July about detainment due to attendance shortage and about the opportunity for readmission in fourth semester, the committee said.

“ I Might Not Mentally Survive This”

The following picture of mail was posted by Dinesh Rohilla, Sushant’s uncle, on Facebook.

(Photo Courtesy: Facebook/Dinesh Rohilla)

The picture is of Sushant’s mail addressed to “Dr Chauhan” as a request to let him appear for the exam in the following semester instead of debarring him which would lead to a repeat of academic year.

(With PTI inputs)