Lawfare – Detention, Others | Censorship – Protests/Meetings

A team of Mumbai Police entered the Tata Institute of Social Sciences (TISS) campus late Monday night with heavy force and detained several students for organising a peaceful gathering in memory of late human rights defender G.N. Saibaba on his first death anniversary, observed the previous day.

“There is still police presence on the campus. They came hours ago,” a student told Maktoob at 2 a.m. on Tuesday.

“We don’t know the exact details. We don’t know why the police came or who complained. It was a peaceful candlelight gathering to honour a rights defender,” the student said.

According to an Indian Express report, Mumbai Police invoked sections of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita pertaining to “causing prejudice to the nation,” “promoting enmity between groups,” and “unlawful assembly,” among others, against at least ten students.

The FIR was registered based on a complaint from the TISS administration, the newspaper reported.