LPU had filed a suit against Ex Cabinet Minister Mr. Vijay Sampla and his aides. In its suit university mentioned that Mr. Vijay Sampla and his aides are propagating false information through various media to harm the university’s reputation for political gains.
After the judicial proceedings, the court mentioned in its order that not only the image and reputation of plaintiff University, but the future of staff working with it and most important, the future of students studying in the University is at stake because of the defendants (Mr. Vijay Sampla, Mr. Sampla’s son (Mr. Sahil Sampla) and his close aid Mr. Amit Taneja) and has passed the restraining order from doing so illegally with any ulterior motive without justification.
Reproduction of the operating part of the court order is as below and Copy of the Judicial Proceedings and Interim Order is attached which can also be accessed through Kapurthala https://districts.ecourts.gov.in/kapurthala
“To support its contentions, the plaintiff University through its Additional Registrar Dr. Manish Gupta furnished an affidavit in-verbatim of such contentions while lending support from copy of above mentioned letters/notifications/orders of Government, copies of certain letters issued by University Grants Commission, New Delhi, asking plaintiff University to take care of accommodation and safety of students residing in the hostels. The copy of three letters dated 14.04.2020 and 15.04.2020 issued by defendant No.1 to the Worthy Prime Minister of India, the Worthy Governor of State of Punjab and the Worthy Chief Minister of State of Punjab leveling some of aforementioned allegations over plaintiff University were also placed on record, which were also perused by this Court. The copies of similar allegations leveled against plaintiff University and its staff as well as officials through social media and print media were also perused being part of the suit. So all these facts are sufficient to conclude that not only the image and reputation of plaintiff University, but the future of staff working with it and most important, the future of students studying in the University is at stake at the hands of defendants as it appears in the given matrix of the case at this stage. This needs to be checked by passing order to restrain all the defendants from doing so illegally with any ulterior motive without justification, which threats are required to be checked to further negate and rule out the happening of untoward incident with such staff, officials and students studying in the plaintiff University and this Court orders accordingly. The defendants are accordingly restrained in this regard doing or carrying out such activity illegally or forcibly, whereas they can exercise their right for lodging protest or can show concern only as per law.”