Several students and youth organisations on Tuesday submitted a memorandum to Pune district collector demanding a judicial probe into the police action on students in Delhi and Aligarh, a day after staging a protest at the Savitribai Phule Pune University campus here.
These students' groups also protested and shouted slogans condemning the Jamia Millia Islamia (JMI) and Aligarh Muslim University (AMU) episodes as well as the amended Citizenship Act. "We condemn the state-sponsored act of brutality by the police against the peaceful protesting students in JMI, AMU and other campuses across the country," the memorandum stated. It soughtan independent judicial probe of these incidents and action against errant police personnel, as well as non-police personnel involved.
Demanding safety and security at educational campuses nationwide, the memorandum called for immediate revocation of the amended Citizenship
Act as well as dropping of plans to carry out the National Register of Citizens exercise across the country.