DCW Chairperson Lata Gupta took suo motu cognisance of a video circulating on social media in which students alleged that they had submitted a complaint against the professor to JNU Vice Chancellor Santishree Dhulipudi Pandit in May 2026. The students claimed that no appropriate action had been taken on their complaint so far

Jawaharlal Nehru University has cancelled permission for an August 10 discussion organised by the JNU Students’ Union on a book authored by former student Umar Khalid, citing the non-disclosure of full facts about the event