Hyderabad: College students of the Hyderabad-based NALSAR College of Regulation have written to the Vice-Chancellor, Registrar and professors of the establishment, opposing any proposal to ask Chief Justice of India Surya Kant as chief visitor to the varsity’s convocation.
In an e-mail communication despatched on July 23, a number of the college students of 2026 batch on the college mentioned their concern arises from the refusal of the Supreme Court docket Bench led by the CJI to permit pressing itemizing of a plea regarding the alleged brutal police motion towards protesters throughout the peaceable ‘Chalo Sansad’ demonstration at Jantar Mantar on July 20.
They mentioned they’re writing to specific their issues concerning the proposal to ask the CJI because the chief visitor for the upcoming convocation.
There was no speedy response from the college officers when their feedback had been sought on the matter.
The scholars cited CJI’s reported feedback that the bench was not keen on watching movies when the lead counsel provided to indicate video proof of the alleged police excesses throughout the protest on July 20.
“As college students of regulation, our concern is narrower and extra particular to us as a graduating batch. A convocation is supposed to be a second the place the College’s personal values, together with a dedication to constitutional rights, entry to justice, and reasoned engagement with grievances, are visibly mirrored within the decisions it makes.”
“We really feel that receiving our levels from a dignitary whose current public conduct, as reported, seems dismissive of significant allegations of police brutality towards protesting residents sits uncomfortably with what now we have been taught to worth throughout our time at NALSAR”, they mentioned within the e-mail.
The peaceable march to the Parliament was referred to as by the Cockroach Janta Celebration (CJP) and the protesters raised points, together with the conduct of the NEET examination and reforms in Nationwide Take a look at Company (NTA), they mentioned.
“We’re elevating this matter now, earlier than any formal determination is made, in order that our views could be taken into consideration nicely in time,” they mentioned.
The scholars requested the college to “strongly rethink” the selection of chief visitor for the convocation, and to seek the advice of the graduating batch earlier than any last determination is communicated or an invite is prolonged.
A pupil on Sunday mentioned they haven’t acquired any reply from the varsity administration to their e-mail.
