Censorship – Academia

The plea filed by Ramadas K S sought to set aside a report by the empowered committee of TISS, which recommended his suspension, claiming that the panel had conducted an arbitrary inquiry.
Ramadas also denied using any political links against the institute and stated that his suspension order was wrong as many fellow students supported him.

The Bombay High Court on Wednesday dismissed a plea filed by Dalit PhD student Ramadas K S last year challenging his suspension by the Tata Institute of Social Science (TISS) over “repetitive misconduct and anti-national activities”.
The court observed the institute’s action was not out of discrimination or against freedom of expression.
A bench of Justices Chandurkar and M M Sathaye passed the judgment on Ramadas’s plea seeking revocation of the order issued on April 18, 2024, which suspended him from TISS’s School of Developmental Studies for two years.
“We find that this is not a fit case to interfere. There is no merit in the petition and the same is dismissed,” the high court held.