The swift expulsion of three students allegedly caught smoking marijuana in their hostel rooms at Indian Institute of Management, Indore, this past week has led Delhi's student and teaching fraternity to believe that the Institute acted in undue haste and failed in its moral duty towards the students.

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"An educational institution is supposed to help students resist temptation and allow them to improve themselves. Instead, by expelling these students and ruining their careers, it has assumed the role of a judicial or criminal body. They have failed as an academic institution by coming down on them hard and washing their hands off any responsibility towards these students," said Maya John, a resident at Delhi University's hostel for women.

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