New Delhi: Protesting Jamia Millia Islamia students have called off their hunger strike after the university’s registrar met them and assured them of a definite timeline for a student union constitution and to hold elections.The students were seen celebrating the end of their protest, which lasted for close to three weeks.18-Day Protest Ends in Celebration as Jamia Millia Islamia Approves Restoration of Students’ Union.@thewire_in https://t.co/EEmFBpwhfM— Minal Saeed Khan (@Minal_Saeed_K) October 29, 2026Students led a sustained protest and hunger strikes on campus with their demands since October 12, which included the removal of the university’s Chief Proctor and Security Advisor, the release of detained students, withdrawal of punitive action and show-cause notices against students and reopening of the campus for regular academic activities.While the university has announced key measures, there appear to be growing apprehensions over the fate of detained students and those who face other police action, since two FIRs have been registered by Delhi Police in relation to alleged vandalism during the student protests.Also read: Jamia Millia Islamia Students Fight for a Union Despite Admin IntimidationAt the same time, two students and National Students Union of India (NSUI) activists, Zeeshan Khan and Mohd Faizan, were sent to Tihar Jail hours earlier on Thursday. Both students, who were detained outside the university on Wednesday, were produced before the Special Executive Magistrate at Amar Colony Police Station at 2 pm on Thursday. Zeeshan heads the NSUI unit at JMI. The news of their detention in Tihar, which is to last for three days as per a report in the New Indian Express, accompanies the news that Khan and Faizan were illegally detained for 24 hours before being produced before the SEM.Previously, Cockroach Janta Party leaders Saurav Das and Ashutosh Ranka were detained for a week on the orders of the SEM at Mandir Marg Police Station. View this post on Instagram A post shared by Gurmehar Kaur (@gurmeharrr)The university has ordered the completion of the Students’ Union Constitution by May 15, 2027 – more than six months from now.JMI said in an order issued on October 29 that elections would follow “within six weeks” of the academic session beginning July 16, 2027, putting the date for elections somewhere between late July and mid-August 2027.The university’s order has said the procedure would follow the Lyngdoh Committee’s recommendations, which puts students in charge of elections to student unions.The order also said that disciplinary actions and campus bans linked to the ongoing protest would be revoked.JMI also announced in a separate notice, also issued on Thursday, that offline classes and examinations for all undergraduate and postgraduate programmes would resume from Monday, November 2. It said that “attendance would be mandatory” to classes.The quick developments leave in doubt the proposed action to be taken against students as part of the two FIRs filed by Delhi Police in relation to the protests.Apart from the detention of Khan and Faizan, reports said, a female resident at JMI’s Begum Hazrat Mahal Girls’ Hostel has received a show-cause notice for allegedly taking emergency leave from JMI and then participating in a student protest.The notice reportedly asked the student to submit a written explanation within 24 hours and warned of possible disciplinary action if her response was found unsatisfactory.The students of JMI had been protesting since October 12 for the restoration of the student union at the university. No elections for a student body have been held since 2006.The trigger for the agitation came on October 9, when Aligarh Muslim University announced student union elections following a 19-day hunger strike by students. A student body will now be elected in AMU after a gap of eight years.Encouraged by the result of the student’s agitation in AMU, students of Jamia Millia Islamia announced an indefinite hunger strike on October 12. Jamia had dissolved its student’s union in 2006 citing campus violence and administrative disputes.The protesting students boycotted the university’s Foundation Day celebrations and organised ‘Inquilabi Mela’, an alternative programme, near gate number 7. They also boycotted online classes and demanded that the campus be reopened.Tensions had escalated on Sunday (October 25), when attempts were made to forcibly remove the protesters from campus. University authorities had suspended classes, cut off water facilities and restricted movement in and out of campus. Despite heavy police deployment, students continued to gather in large numbers to protest.