SAHMAT
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25.9.2008
We applaud the Vice Chancellor of the Jamia Millia Islamia, Professor Mushirul Hasan and the entire academic community of the university for their calmness and courage in what is proving to be a testing and traumatic time.
We fully endorse the decision by the Vice Chancellor, to provide the university students who have been swept up in the terrorism dragnet, with a competent legal defence. This decision has to be recognised as a sign of abiding commitment to the basic rule of natural justice: that a person is innocent until proven guilty.
We appeal to :
All democratic and secular individuals and organizations to support all steps of the University administration and the faculty to maintain and strengthen the secular character of this premier institution.
We condemn the vituperative attacks that have been launched against Professor Mushirul Hasan by spokesmen of the BJP and its affiliates.
Anil Chandra
Arjun Dev
Atluri Murali
Badri Raina
Biswamoy Pati
C.P.Chandrasekhar
Chanchal Chauhan
D. N. Jha
Girish Mishra
H. C. Satyayarthi
Indira Chandrasekhar
Iqtidar Alam
Irfan Habib
Jabri Mal Parekh
Jayati Ghosh
Lata Singh
Lima Kanungo
M.K.Raina
Madangopal Singh
Madhu Prasad
Manmohan
Mihir Bhattacharya
MMP Singh
N. Rajendran
Parthiv Shah
Prabhat Patnaik
R. L. Shukla
R. S. Sharma
Rajan Gurukul
Rajen Prasad
Ram Rahman
Ramkrishna Chatterjee
S Kalidas
Saeed Mirza
Shireen Musvi
Sohail Hashmi
Suvira Jaiswal
Utsa Patnaik
V Ramakrishna
V. N. Jha
Veer Munshi
Vivan Sundaram