Round 450 college students from Hyderabad-based NALSAR College of Legislation 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 on the varsity’s convocation.
In an electronic mail despatched on July 23, some college students from the 2026 batch stated their issues arose from the refusal of a Supreme Court docket bench led by the CJI to permit pressing itemizing of a plea regarding the alleged brutal police action against protesters in the course of the peaceable ‘Chalo Sansad’ demonstration at Jantar Mantar on July 20.
They stated they have been writing to precise their issues concerning the proposal to ask the CJI as chief visitor for the upcoming convocation.
There was no rapid response from college officers when their feedback have been sought.
The scholars cited the CJI’s reported comments that the bench was not interested in watching movies when the lead counsel supplied to indicate video proof of the alleged police excesses in the course of the July 20 protest.
“As college students of legislation, 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,” they stated within the electronic mail.
“We really feel that receiving our levels from a dignitary whose latest public conduct, as reported, seems dismissive of significant allegations of police brutality in opposition to protesting residents sits uncomfortably with what we’ve got been taught to worth throughout our time at NALSAR,” they stated.
The peaceable march to Parliament was known as by the Cockroach Janta Occasion (CJP), with protesters elevating points together with the conduct of the NEET examination and reforms within the Nationwide Testing Company, they added.
“We’re elevating this matter now, earlier than any formal resolution is made, in order that our views could be taken under consideration effectively in time,” they stated.
The scholars requested the college to “strongly rethink” its selection of chief visitor for the convocation and to seek the advice of the graduating batch earlier than any closing resolution was communicated or an invite prolonged.
A pupil stated on Sunday that they’d not acquired any reply from the varsity administration to their electronic mail.
(With inputs from PTI)
