By Shishir Prashant 
PrashantNews
The Jawaharlal Nehru University administration on Tuesday vowed to take strict action against students found raising objectionable slogans against Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Union Home Minister Amit Shah.
An FIR has already been lodged in the matter, the administration said. “Universities are centres for innovation and new ideas, and they cannot be permitted to be converted into laboratories of hate. Freedom of speech and expression is a fundamental right,” the JNU said on X.
The statement came after an incident on Monday night when a row erupted after slogans were raised by students at JNU, allegedly against PM Modi and Shah following the Supreme Court’s refusal to grant bail to former students Umar Khalid and Sharjeel Imam in the 2020 riots conspiracy case.
However, the JNUSU said the event was organised to keep the memory of the 2020 attacks on JNU alive and to “highlight pattern of injustice at Sabarmati Hostel”, which was the prime target of the 2020 attacks.