Jamia Millia Islamia (JMI) University has cancelled the admission of scholar and activist Safoora Zargar, who got arrested in a 2020 riots case, due to “unsatisfactory” development in her thesis work. Zargar, who had enrolled with the Department of Sociology in the built-in MPhil/PhD programme, said the cancellation “breaks my coronary heart however no longer my spirit”.
In a notification dated August 26, workplace of the dean, Faculty of Social Science, said she did no longer submit her M.Phil dissertation within the most stipulated time of five semesters.
“The registration of Safoora Zargar from M.Phil./Ph.D. (Sociology) stands cancelled w.e.f. 22 August, 2022, in anticipation of the approval of the equal of the Faculty Committee,” the notification read.
The dean’s office stated that the motion has been taken on the suggestion given by the Research Advisory Committee (RAC) on July 5. The depend used to be accepted via the department’s Board of Studies, the easiest decision-making body of the department, on August 22.
