India, Sept. 5 -- New Delhi

Delhi University (DU) officials on Thursday said that students contesting the DU student union (DUSU) elections are simply required to provide a surety of Rs.1 lakh as a safeguard and not deposit the amount for the bond.

Chief election officer Raj Kishore Sharma, addressing a press conference, said, "Students might have misunderstood some of the technicalities of the surety bond. The bond clearly mentions that in case of defacement, the contesting candidate might be liable to pay up to Rs.1 lakh, which means that if anyone is actually found guilty of defacement, it will first be judged as to how severe the defacement is. If it covers Rs.10,000, then that is the amount that will be recovered and no more."

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