Accepting the demand of teachers and students, JNU today agreed to add more members to the high-level committee probing the Afzal Guru row even as it said that students union president Kanhaiya Kumar's release and dropping of sedition charge are beyond its control.

The teachers and students had been raising four demands including expansion of the probe panel, disallowing the police on campus and approaching the police seeking Kanhaiya's release and revoking of sedition charges against students.

While the varsity had earlier ruled out changing the composition of the high-level committee saying it had full-faith in it, today the Vice Chancellor M Jagadesh Kumar decided to add two more members to the probe panel.

"The Vice Chancellor had also called a meeting of Deans of all the schools and chairpersons of all the special centres to apprise them about steps being taken to restore normalcy on campus. It was decided that the three-member panel will co-opt two more members including a woman," JNU Registrar Bhupinder Zutshi told PTI.

Rejecting the demand of approaching police for revoking of sedition charge, Zutshi maintained, "we have not arrested Kanhaiya, we have also not charged anyone with sedition. It is for the police and court to take a call in this matter. Both these demands are beyond our control".