NEW DELHI: The JNU administration had suggested the extreme measure of temporarily shutting down the campus following Sunday’s violence , but was asked to hold back by an alarmed HRD ministry ET has reliably gathered that the proposal was made at Monday’s meeting between the ministry and JNU administration. Vice chancellor M Jagadesh Kumar, however, stayed away from the meeting.In its two-page report to the ministry, the university has laid the blame on students agitating against the fee hike , adding that the same lot had a few weeks ago “vandalised the admin block and ransacked the office of the vice chancellor”.The report fails to explain how outsiders entered the campus wearing masks. Instead, it says the university called in the police because students opposing the semester registration process got “aggressive” with those who had come to register themselves.“The administration immediately contacted the police to come quickly and maintain law and order on the campus. However, by the time the police came, the students who came for the registration were beaten up by a group of agitating students opposing the registration,” says the report. It mentions that “masked miscreants” entered Periyar hostel, while omitting any reference to Sabarmati hostel, which is said to have witnessed maximum violence, ET has gathered.The ministry, while turning down the suggestion to shut down the campus at Monday’s meeting chaired by HRD secretary Amit Khare, asked the university administration to restore calm.The JNU registrar’s police complaint dated January 5 also connects the violence to the unrest of the past few weeks, saying it was a “culmination of events during the last couple of weeks which include agitating students vandalising the admin block, assaulting the vice chancellor and ransacking the office of the vice chancellor for which police complaints were filed”.The university’s report, ET gathers, refers to the October 28 fee hike agitation and mentions how some students gheraoed teachers and vandalised the admin block and the VC’s office, and attacked the VC’s vehicle.It says student registration for the winter semester was started from January 1, 2020, and that some agitating students attempted to prevent it and even damaged the Communications & Information Services (CIS) system of the varsity on January 3.The report notes that on January 4, the CIS was restored and thousands of students began registering. But this was again disrupted between 1pm and 4 pm the same day, and a police complaint was lodged.The report adds that for the past few days, agitating students had forcibly closed buildings of various schools, which was affecting non-agitating students, staff and faculty.It refers to students in two groups without mentioning their ideological leanings — those against registration and those supporting it.