'Kolkata police on Monday prevented activists of the Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad from reaching the gates of Jadavpur University, spawning clashes four days after unrest first began since Union minister Babul Supriyo alleged he was heckled by college students in a nearly six-hour long standoff on campus on September 19... Angered, the ABVP activists pelted stones at police officers and tried to break barricades. Videos have been doing the rounds on social media which shows them charging at the barricades.
'On Thursday the 19th, BJP MP and Union minister Babul Supriyo was attending an event in Jadavpur University, organised by the ABVP when he was shown black flags and asked to leave by agitating students to which he allegedly responded with threats and physical assaults.Later, the workers with the ABVP and the BJP started a fire and vandalised University premises. A magazine loaded with bullets was found near the university entrance. On Friday evening, thousands of students of Jadavpur University joined a massive anti-ABVP protest rally calling out the violence perpetrated by hooligans.'
'For the past two years, Banaras Hindu University (BHU) has been in news for a number of reasons. Starting from widespread protests by girl students in 2017 to several students being expelled on frivolous grounds. The latest is an incident wherein a dalit professor was assaulted allegedly over some “objectionable” comment on a Facebook post. On January 29, a dalit professor from the department of sociology was beaten up by a group of students and outsiders, allegedly for posting a comment on a picture of a professor and a female student, as per reports.
'A scheduled public screening of a documentary by a former student of the Film and Television Institute of India (FTII), who was one the leaders of the 139-day strike in 2015, was cancelled by the varsity’s administration on Thursday, just a few hours before the screening was to take place. Harishankar Nachimuthu, who was president of the FTII students’ union during the 2015 protest, has alleged that the administration received threats from the Akhil Bhartiya Vidyarthi Parishad (ABVP), and cancelled the screening under pressure.
'Members of the Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad (ABVP), the student wing of the BJP, allegedly physically assaulted some Delhi University students who were participating in a public meeting yesterday, October 27. Many student activists from different groups sustained minor injuries in the attack, which was allegedly led by Delhi University Students Union (DUSU) president Amit Tanwar.
'YOUTHS aligned to the ABVP and an independent students’ organisation called Chhatra Sangharsh Samiti on Tuesday vandalised property and created commotion at a private institute in Udaipur to register their protest against a student from Kashmir who had allegedly shared a post on Facebook praising slain Hizbul Mujahideen militant Burhan Wani. Mudasir Rashid, a third-year student of civil engineering, has since been suspended and booked under sedition...'
'...Since January 2016, there have been at least 18 cases of sedition lodged against various citizens, from students and politicians to anti-liquor activists, leaders and activists of reservation movements, Kashmiri activists and even the principal of a school who got a map of India wrong! Apart from Bhat, two other sedition cases were filed over social media posts, on Whatsapp and Facebook. In January, Anwar Sadiq was arrested in Mallappuram, Kerala for allegedly making insulting comments on Facebook about Lt. Col. Niranjan E.
'Police in India have registered a sedition case against Amnesty India after some people allegedly raised "anti-India" slogans at its event. The rights group said its event in Bangalore on Saturday aimed "to seek justice for human rights violations" in Indian-administered Kashmir. But a right-wing student group said the event was "anti-national" and filed a complaint on Monday. In February, two students were arrested in Delhi on sedition charges.
'In a situation echoing recent incidents at Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, two Tumakuru students from left-wing unions, who distributed pamphlets in support of the JNU movement, and got into an altercation with local Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad (ABVP) students, have been booked for sedition, after a complaint was filed by Srinivas, an alleged ABVP activist.
'Two cases were today filed in Bihar seeking sedition charges against AIMIM leader Asaduddin Owaisi for his refusal to chant 'Bharat Mata Ki Jai'. ABVP leader Ramji Singh in Buxar filed a case in the court of Chief Judicial Magistrate Hari Shankar Prasad seeking booking of the Hyderabad MP under section 124 A which relates to sedition. Petitioner's lawyer Uma Shankar Singh said along with the writ-application, two CDs of the AIMIM leader's provocative speech in Maharashtra have been attached...'
