The allegations include the use of "uncouth and uncivilised language" and making sexual advances during lectures.

The bench, however, refused to pass an interim order with respect to the decisions taken by the current Officiating VC Professor Mohammed Shakeel.

Prof Eqbal Hussain, former Vice Chancellor of Jamia Millia Islamia, moves HC over the appointment of Prof Mohammad Shakeel as the interim VC.

The court also asked the President of India to order initiation of the process of appointing a regular VC.

Addressing a press conference near one of the gates of the varsity, the protesting students pressed for repeal of the Citizenship (Amendment) Act, 2019 and release all students who were booked in the anti-CAA protest nearly four years ago.

After the CAA rules were notified on Monday, protests erupted on the Jamia Millia Islamia campus, leading to a heavy police deployment at the university.