Dimapur, May 31 : The Nagaland University Teachers’ Association (NUTA) has demanded government action into, what the organization has alleged, the “harassment and assault meted out to students, staff members and faculty by some miscreants”on the highway between Mokokchung and the Lumami campus of Nagaland Universityon May 19.
The central executive council of the Nagaland University Teachers’ Association and their Lumami unit issued a press release on Tuesday demanding prosecution and police action into the alleged incident. “A group of miscreants waylaid the highway and forcefully halted passersby, throwing stones and abusing everyone. Without citing any reason, they forcefully halted and stopped the bus in which university students, staffs and teachers were travelling and even assaulted a senior teaching faculty without any provocation from the victims,” the NUTA stated.
“After such harassment meted out in the highway, those miscreants entered the university campus disrupting the academic environment and threatened individual teacher with ‘dire consequences’ on the pretext of tendering apology.”
The association expressed deep concern that even after ten days of the ‘life-threatening incident,’ the district administration of Mokokchung district under whose jurisdiction the incident took place, had yet to act in the matter.
“Such inaction on the part of the University authority is giving more scope to the perpetrators to further traumatize the university community. Such acts are uncalled for and is detrimental for the healthy growth of any institution particularly the educational institution,” the NUTA stated.
The associations have assured that the university will continue to press with said demanduntil the authorities take action.
