Supreme Court sentences 5 students to life imprisonment, recommends law banning campus politics

The Supreme Court on Friday recommended that Parliament enact a law to keep university campuses free from political activities.

The suggestion was made by a division bench comprising Justices M K Mukherjee and K T Thomas while sentencing to life five students of the Kurukshetra university in Haryana for killing a fellow student.

The victim, Jasbir Singh, a final year post graduate student, was prey to the political rivalry between two student factions.

The court set aside the judgment of the designated court in Haryana which had acquitted the accused.

''Tender mind gets galvanised on minor issues, frenzy flares up even on trivial ties, young children and adolescents, unaware of the disastrous consequences befalling their future, indulge in vandalism and mayhem against their own fellow students,'' the judges observed.

The judges said it was a pity that top level political leaders, who socialise among themselves quite frequently, do not encourage the healthy attitude to percolate down to the grassroots.

UNI