Hon’ble Tarun Agarwala, J.—Students indulging in arson, defacing and destroying public property has become a fashion in modern times. Taking the law in their own hands has become a status symbol to the students and this mal practice adopted by the students at large needs to be curbed. Any kind of legislation, regulations framed from time to time becomes inadequate in comparison to the brutal lethal student force that is unleashed when things go wrong and violence erupts in the campus on account of an insignificant or a trivial incident. Whatever may be the reason, it does not give any right to the students to take the law into their own hands and destroy public property. Such acts needs to be condemned. A student who indulge in these activities needs to be punished. This is precisely what has happened in the present case in an incident which occurred in the campus of the Aligarh Muslim University in the night of 16.9.2007.

2. The petitioner, is a Post Graduate student in the Aligarh Muslim University, doing a course in Master of Social Work (MSW), was suspended and, after issuing a show cause notice and, providing an opportunity of hearing, was expelled for three academic s