PATNA: The Patna high court on Wednesday sternly ordered the
Patna University (PU) and district administration to kick out all those who are illegally living inside the university hostels within in two weeks' time.
The matter was actually related to repeated bombing incidents inside Patna PU hostels since past several years.
Vikash Chandra alias Guddu Baba had submitted a written complaint to the then Chief Justice IA Ansari along with a clipping of news item published in a
Hindi vernacular on August 1, 2016 about recovery of explosives from Saidpur hostel of PU. The complaint was turned into a public interest litigation (PIL) by Ansari.
Chandra, on earlier occasions, had apprised the court that explosives were also recovered from Minto hostel in May last year and later on January 17, this year, explosives were again recovered from the Iqbal hostel of PU.
The PU on Wednesday submitted a counter affidavit before the division bench of Chief Justice MR Shah and Justice Ashutosh Kumar on the matter and accepted that out of altogether 28 hostels of PU, four are such were unauthorised people are living.
PU counsel Vivekananda Prasad Singh, through the affidavit, submitted that 46 out of 52 rooms of Law College hostel, 86 out of more than 180 rooms of BN College hostel, 29 rooms out of 53 of Rani Ghat hostel and 28 out of 52 rooms of Hathua hostels are encroached by unidentified and anti-social elements.
The court, after being appraised of the situation, got irked and made observation that the varsity had failed to safeguard the interest of the students as well as its properties.
The court rapped the PU authorities that why not any FIR was lodged against illegal occupants and what restrained them from taking stern action against such occupants. The court fixed September 27 for next date of hearing on the issue and till then, all hostels have to be cleared of every single illegal occupant.
Earlier also, the high court had rapped the authorities of PU and district administration several times on the issue that they were unable to stop the repeated bombing incidents.
