The undersigned students and teachers of NALSAR University of Law, Hyderabad strongly condemn the police presence, raids and arrests in the JNU campus and the attack on JNU students, teachers and media persons at the Patiala House Court premises.
In a time when public discourse in this country has descended to the level of shouting matches on prime time television, universities are one of the last bastions of free dialogue and debate. Events like that on February 9th, 2016 in JNU provide for a much needed platform to further intellectual discourse.
Even if the slogans shouted at the event were in bad taste or offensive to certain sections of the society, they are still protected by the freedom of speech as guaranteed under Article 19 of the Indian Constitution. The law of sedition as it has been interpreted by the Indian Supreme Court only applies to speech which is an incitement to violence or public disorder and thus, does not apply to the present factual scenario.
The law of sedition is a vestige of the colonial legacy and has a history of being used to suppress views which have been unfavourable of the establishment. Use of such an archaic law to suppress ideas against the state is uncalled for and highly condemnable.
Therefore, they stood in solidarity with JNU Student’s Union President Kanhaiya Kumar and other students who have been charged with sedition by the government. We demand that the government immediately withdraw the charges against the students of JNU and stop suppressing dissenting voices by labelling them as anti-national.
-Dated February 16th, 2016-
Students of Nalsar, University of Law, Hyderabad
| 1. | Tanisha Pande |
| 2. | Veera Mahuli |
| 3. | Enakshi jha |
| 4. | Sumanyu Mohanty |
| 5. | Sushim Aryan |
| 6. | Raghu Meka |
| 7. | Pratiek |
| 8. | V. Prithvi Bhaskar |
| 9. | Lakshmi Dwivedi |
| 10. | Kartik Chawla |
| 11. | Mayank Samuel |
| 12. | Ritwik Dash |
| 13. | Priyam Tewari |
| 14. | Devarshi Mukhopadhyay |
| 15. | Shreenath Khemka |
| 16. | Prashant Agase |
| 17. | Arpita |
| 18. | Kartik Tripathi |
| 19. | Oshoneesh |
| 20. | Shantanu Dey |
| 21. | Elizabeth Thomas |
| 22. | Kartik D Monga |
| 23. | Mohammed Omer Farooq |
| 24. | Jaideep Kodali |
| 25. | Noel Johns |
| 26. | Daeyoung Jung |
| 27. | Avinash Jamatia |
| 28. | Vishal Raj Meena |
| 29. | Ayush Ranka |
| 30. | Aaryaman Aashind |
| 31. | Srijan Sahay |
| 32. | Soumitra Bose |
| 33. | Sidharth Jha |
| 34. | Akshay Puri |
| 35. | Naveen Hegde |
| 36. | Ravishankar Krishnan |
| 37. | Pranav Agarwal |
| 38. | Kshitij Goyal |
| 39. | Ajatshatru Pandey |
| 40. | Ishan Seth |
| 41. | Manoj K |
| 42. | Shwashreya |
| 43. | Mukesh Kori |
| 44. | Aatmin Shah |
| 45. | Varun Baliga |
| 46. | Sravya K |
| 47. | Kritika Sethi |
| 48. | Megna Sundar |
| 49. | Saachi Kapoor |
| 50. | Harshita Chaudhary |
| 51. | Srishti Khare |
| 52. | Nastassia Khurana |
| 53. | Nikitha Shenoy |
| 54. | Rajlakshmi Sharma |
| 55. | Kopal Sharraf |
| 56. | Anisha Nitin Parikh |
| 57. | Malika Chadha |
| 58. | Tanya Choudhary |
| 59. | Aparna |
| 60. | Pooja Verma |
| 61. | Lakshmi Venkataraman |
| 62. | Pooja Murty |
| 63. | Anjana Reddy |
| 64. | Chinmayi Sharma |
| 65. | Megha Krishnamurthi |
| 66. | Haya Arif |
| 67. | Bhavna Pattanaik |
| 68. | Urmika Tripathi |
| 69. | Preeti Kolluri |
| 70. | Sahana Keshav |
| 71. | Maitreye Parashar |
| 72. | Ranjini Gogoi |
| 73. | Adrija Lakshmi Jayanthy |
| 74. | Abhay Raj Singh Bundela |
| 75. | Pallavi Dehari |
| 76. | Upasana P |
| 77. | Abhijeet Singh Rawaley |
| 78. | Anubhav Sachdev |
| 79. | Ankita Agarwal |
| 80. | Oorvi Mehta |
| 81. | Ashwin Murthy |
| 82. | Sitara Srivatsau |
| 83. | Tanuj Kumar |
| 84. | Aishwarya Raj |
| 85. | Soumya |
| 86. | Namratha |
| 87. | Urvi Rajbhanu |
| 88. | Sruthakeerthy Sriram |
| 89. | Arushi Nayar |
| 90. | Aashutosh Choudhary |
| 91. | Shivam Raman |
| 92. | Alok Kumar |
| 93. | Aashna Chowdary |
| 94. | Gopika Menon |
| 95. | Shubhank Singh |
| 96. | Virajith Mendem |
| 97. | Ujwal Chowhan |
| 98. | Sahir Boppana |
| 99. | Anirudh Singh |
| 100. | Sameer Thakur |
| 101. | Saad Khan |
| 102. | Deep Shah |
| 103. | Mohneesh Rai |
| 104. | Angad Kamath |
| 105. | Abhijit Vellanki |
| 106. | Karthik V |
| 107. | Mayank Dewangan |
| 108. | Akshita |
| 109. | Diksha |
| 110. | Priyanka V |
| 111. | Subhra Tripathy |
| 112. | Anurag Gupta |
| 113. | Ankita Gaur |
| 114. | Sonali Ladha |
| 115. | Jayant Negi |
| 116. | Anurag Pandey |
| 117. | Girish P Karuvelil |
| 118. | Abhishek |
| 119. | Pritish Simon |
| 120. | Yimjungpenta Abigail Longkumar |
| 121. | Phalguni Bhalla |
| 122. | Vishnu Sumanth |
| 123. | Ayush Vijayvargiya |
| 124. | Anushree Pande |
| 125. | Agranee Kapoor |
| 126. | Krishna Priya |
| 127. | Sonia Dasgupta |
| 128. | Gunjan Rai |
| 129. | Vennela |
| 130. | Raji Gururaj |
| 131. | GP Sri Samhitha |
| 132. | Stuti Shah |
| 133. | Kunal Parashar |
| 134. | Yash Anand |
| 135. | Mounika Donur |
| 136. | Sushma Reddy |
| 137. | Sukriti Goyal |
| 138. | Ojashwi KC |
| 139. | Sameera Balani |
| 140. | Balaji Subramanian |
| 141. | Pallavi Balakrishnan |
| 142. | Ananya Das |
| 143. | Paridhi Srivastava |
| 144. | Pradyuman Kaistha |
| 145. | Sanchita Aidasani |
| 146. | Pranjal Gupta |
| 147. | Amritha Kumar |
| 148. | Rakshanda Deka |
| 149. | Dhairya Pratap Singh |
| 150. | Rohan Dewan |
| 151. | Nikitha Surabhi |
| 152. | Aayush Mallik |
| 153. | Tanvi Tuhina |
| 154. | Lokesh Kaza |
| 155. | Avaneendra Khare |
| 156. | Jitesh Anand |
| 157. | Shantanu Mathur |
| 158. | Anna Liz Thomas |
| 159. | Puru Bansal |
| 160. | Utkarsh Roy |
| 161. | Yash Aswal |
| 162. | Vamsi Masireddy |
| 163. | Maitreyee Dixit |
| 164. | Shivsaai Prasad |
| 165. | Shivang Agarwal |
| 166. | Abhishek Babbar |
| 167. | Siddharth Aiyyana |
| 168. | Pranshu Bharti |
| 169. | Aradhika Ratan |
| 170. | Mrudula Karumanchi |
| 171. | Priyamvada Shivaji |
| 172. | Rashmi Gautam |
| 173. | Srija Kumar |
| 174. | Vismita Gehlot |
| 175. | Soumya Jena |
| 176. | Aishwarya Birla |
| 177. | Shweta Rao |
| 178. | Devars Saraf |
| 179. | Megha Mehrotra |
| 180. | Nishanth Vasanth |
| 181. | Rishab Bhatnagar |
| 182. | Geethanjali Jujjuvarapu |
| 183. | Shreya Naik |
| 184. | P Pallavi Neha |
| 185. | M Manideep |
| 186. | Sidharth Sunil |
| 187. | Sanket Pargaien |
| 188. | Siddharth Shekar |
| 189. | Nikhil Reddy |
| 190. | Tushit Mishra |
| 191. | Prabhanjan Singh |
| 192. | Benjamin Varlavena |
| 193. | Ajoy Sinha Karpuram |
| 194. | Shweta Sivaram |
| 195. | Akshay Aryal |
| 196. | Nishanth Nallavelly |
| 197. | Anyatama Nayak |
| 198. | Shaktibhushan Shukla |
| 199. | Aditya Sarkar |
| 200. | Sagar Sarrogi |
| 201. | P Avinash Reddy |
| 202. | Prakhar Gupta |
| 203. | Upasana Soni |
| 204. | Aditi Tomar |
| 205. | Kshitij Aditya Sharma |
| 206. | Sunishth Goyal |
| 207. | Srujana Bej |
| 208. | Mathew Kurian |
| 209. | Mridul Dahiya |
| 210. | Vedant Dixit |
| 211. | Mayank Labh |
| 212. | Shreejoyee Bhattacharya |
| 213. | Harsh Mahaseth |
| 214. | Shagun |
| 215. | Deekshita |
| 216. | Agrima KC |
| 217. | Shivani Bagul |
| 218. | Shubhi Goyal |
| 219. | Amani Ponnaganti |
| 220. | Nishtha Gupta |
| 221. | Purvi Khanna |
| 222. | Pavani Kennedy |
| 223. | Ritika Banerjee |
| 224. | Sadhika Gulati |
| 225. | Zainab Khan |
| 226. | Ribhu Mukherjee |
| 227. | Nilav Banerjee |
| 228. | Parika Kamra |
| 229. | Chandini P Raj |
| 230. | Medha Damojipurapu |
| 231. | Akshada Mishra |
| 232. | Shubham Sharma |
| 233. | Surya P Meena |
| 234. | Aishwarya Joshi |
| 235. | Neha Shivhare |
| 236. | Laukik Raibole |
| 237. | Vinoothna |
| 238. | Vidhushi Singhadia |
| 239. | Astha Tambi |
| 240. | Lavish Palliwal |
| 241. | Shubham Sancheti |
| 242. | Lovish Garg |
| 243. | Mukbang Pertin |
| 244. | Akshita Rawat |
| 245. | Aakash Puttige |
| 246. | Rohit Beerapalli |
| 247. | Anjali Singh |
| 248. | Anjali Rawat |
| 249. | Pranshu Bhutra |
| 250. | Manasa M Dhar |
| 251. | Anindita Mukherjee |
| 252. | Muzammil Hassan Choudhary |
| 253. | Shreshtha Das |
| 254. | Prajwal Raj Gayawali |
| 255. | Mingma Lhamu |
| 256. | Anvesh |
| 257. | Abid Yosuf Bhat |
| 258. | Rashmi |
| 259. | Roshan John |
| 260. | Umar Javeed |
| 261. | Snehith |
| 262. | Khansa |
| 263. | Gaurav Tejpal (Research Fellow) |
Teachers of Nalsar, University of Law, Hyderabad
| 1. | Anshuman Shukla |
| 2. | Sidharth Chauhan |
| 3. | Hota Agni Kumar |
| 4. | Neha Pathakji |
| 5. | N. Vasanthi |
| 6. | T. Kannan |
| 7. | Aruna Venkat |
| 8. | Syed Ashfaq Hussain |
| 9. | SNA Shafi |
| 10. | H. Vageeshan |
| 11. | P. Ashwini Kumar |
| 12. | T. Raghavendra Rao |
| 13. | Amita Dhanda |
Anti-National slogans can’t be allowed to be shouted in Campuses of Learning. A time was there when Student community full of Patriotism fought against colonial Rule. Now blaming the country where born & enjoying all benefits , praising Pakistan an enemy Country for past 70 years , highlighting conduct of criminals attacking Indian Parliament, glorifying their misdeeds can never be considered National Activity or allowed to go on in name of Freedom of Expression & Speech. These Young citizens have to Rethink what they did? What their Motherland India is giving ? Why they shouted Slogans against India ? What Pakistan has given them ? What those terrorists have given them? Anti- National Activities can not be allowed to continue, whatever logic they gave. This has to stop at any cost.