Suspended TISS research scholar knocks on SC’s door

Mumbai: TISS research scholar Ramadas KS has filed a special leave petition in Supreme Court against the Bombay high court order dismissing his plea and upholding the two-year suspension order passed by the institute. The SC heard the matter on April 28, and the next hearing is scheduled on May 2.A student of TISS School of Development Studies, Ramadas was suspended last year for ‘repetitive acts of misconduct'. Ramadas is appealing to the SC to stay the suspension order dated April 18, 2024, so he can resume his studies and pursue the PhD degree, and also revoke the ban issued against him from entering any of the TISS campuses.Ramadas, in the petition, mentioned that "he has already lost a year of his doctoral studies" and "is being put to grave and irreparable loss on account of the suspension order".The HC, in its March 12 order, observed that there was no discrimination by the institute and that it found no ‘illegality' or ‘perversity' in the suspension order.Ramadas was suspended for participating in a protest outside Parliament under the banner of Progressive Students' Forum-TISS, a body which is not recognised by the institute, and therefore ‘misusing the institute's name', for posting pamphlets on social media urging people to join the screening of the documentary, ‘Ram ke Naam', during the Ram Mandir inauguration in Ayodhya, and for holding unauthorised events and demonstrations.Mumbai: TISS research scholar Ramadas KS has filed a special leave petition in Supreme Court against the Bombay high court order dismissing his plea and upholding the two-year suspension order passed by the institute. The SC heard the matter on April 28, and the next hearing is scheduled on May 2.A student of TISS School of Development Studies, Ramadas was suspended last year for ‘repetitive acts of misconduct'. Ramadas is appealing to the SC to stay the suspension order dated April 18, 2024, so he can resume his studies and pursue the PhD degree, and also revoke the ban issued against him from entering any of the TISS campuses.Ramadas, in the petition, mentioned that "he has already lost a year of his doctoral studies" and "is being put to grave and irreparable loss on account of the suspension order".The HC, in its March 12 order, observed that there was no discrimination by the institute and that it found no ‘illegality' or ‘perversity' in the suspension order.Ramadas was suspended for participating in a protest outside Parliament under the banner of Progressive Students' Forum-TISS, a body which is not recognised by the institute, and therefore ‘misusing the institute's name', for posting pamphlets on social media urging people to join the screening of the documentary, ‘Ram ke Naam', during the Ram Mandir inauguration in Ayodhya, and for holding unauthorised events and demonstrations.