The Gujarat High Court on Wednesday expressed its dismay at the “incidents of molestation, rape, discrimination, homophobia, favouritism, [and] suppression of voices” which have taken place at Gujarat National Law University (GNLU), Gandhinagar, according to a fact-finding committee’s report. It has directed that a competent authority must now consider the report.
The report, submitted in a sealed cover to the Division Bench of Chief Justice Sunita Agarwal and Justice Aniruddha P. Mayee, was described by the court as “really scary”. The Bench is hearing a suo motu Public Interest Litigation (PIL) based on a newspaper article dated September 22, 2023.
According to the newspaper, a male student of GNLU had suffered mental trauma due to the harassment meted out to him because of his queer identity, while a female student had accused a batchmate of raping her.
