The Delhi High Court on Wednesday termed as “very serious” the alleged concealment of criminal record by recently-elected Delhi University Students’ Union (DUSU) president Rocky Tuseed.
The court issued a notice to Mr. Tuseed, who ran on the National Students’ Union of India (NSUI) ticket, based on allegations levelled by his opponent Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad (ABVP) candidate Rajat Chaudhary.
Filing an impleadment application, Mr. Chaudhary claimed that Mr. Tuseed did not disclose to DU authorities that an FIR was lodged against him in 2014 at Rajouri Garden police station in west Delhi for alleged offences of causing hurt, attempt to murder, trespass and common intention and that he had remained in judicial custody from August 28 to September 15, 2014.
A charge sheet was also filed in the case.
The RSS-backed ABVP candidate said in his plea that there was “deliberate suppression and misrepresentation of facts and narration of false facts by the petitioner [Mr. Tuseed] in the proceedings”.
Mr. Chaudhary said that as per guidelines of the Lyngdoh committee, the candidate shall not have a previous criminal record, nor tried or convicted of any criminal offence and shall not have been subject to any disciplinary action by the university authorities.
Next hearing on Nov. 15
“It is very serious. It is concealment,” Justice Indermeet Kaur said. The court sought Mr. Tuseed’s and the university’s responses on the plea and listed the matter for November 15.
The application was filed in a pending petition by Mr. Tuseed in which he has challenged the DU Election Commission’s order rejecting his nomination for the students’ polls on the grounds that disciplinary action had been taken against him.
Mr. Chaudhary’s plea also asked for recall of the court’s September 8 and September 12 interim orders by which Mr. Tuseed was allowed to contest the polls and DU was allowed to announce the result.
