Ironically, right after the Supreme Court has now said that indefinite protests on roads cannot be permitted, they aggravated. It's been more than 70 days and the government is still trying to figure out ways to negotiate with the protestors. The apex Court will hear now hear pleas to shift Shaheen Bagh protestors to an alternate site.
Recently, hundreds of students at the all-women Gargi College of the University of Delhi (DU) staged protests outside the college campus against the sexual assault by a group of men, who gatecrashed their campus fest. The students were demanding “safe fest or no fest”.
According to the National Commission for Women (NCW), nearly 36 intruders who were drunk, barged in the campus during the college’s annual cultural fest — ‘Reverie’ — on February 6 and misbehaved with the students.
In January, violence broke out at India's premier central university — Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) campus. Nearly 50 masked goons — allegedly from ABVP (Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad) — entered the campus, attacking students and teachers with wooden and metal rods. They also vandalised property and the president of Jawaharlal Nehru University Students Union (JNUSU), Aishe Ghosh was also injured during the attack.
The Jamia Millia Islamia University in Delhi — which is home to over 20,000 students turned into a political hotbed when over a hundred students were injured in the protests against the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) that broke out at its premises in December.
Students across universities — Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Jadavpur University, IIT Mumbai, Delhi University — supported the students over the police. They were protesting against the CAA which is provides allows special treatment to non-Muslim migrants while giving Indian citizenship. The Muslim minority is agitated on the initiatives that exclude them from the government policies.
In November, hundreds of university students had taken to the streets, holding placards in protest of fee hikes. According to the student union, the institute raised hostel, mess and security fee by 400%. However, the fee hikes were partially rolled back after the protests broke — but the students continued to protest demanding a complete rollback.
The university also imposed hostel curfews and a dress code — which did not resonate well with the students either.
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