SFI UK celebrated Dharmendra Pradhan’s resignation and accused police of brutal repression while making no mention of stone-pelting, heckling or attacks on police and RPF personnel during the agitation by goons posing as student protesters.
The Wire portrayed the London gathering as spontaneous despite weeks of SFI campaigning and committee-led protests across Britain. BBC and Al Jazeera joined Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch in amplifying the wider crackdown narrative.
The clashes reportedly stemmed from an earlier flashpoint when ABVP students from the Barak Hostel burnt a Ravan effigy bearing the faces of controversial figures Sharjeel Imam and Umar Khalid.
A Sessions Court noted that Professor Anand Vishwanath was falsely implicated by four girl students from CPI(M)’s student wing Student Federation of India (SFI), after he caught them doing malpractice during a postgraduate examination.
The Kerala Higher Education Department has issued a directive prohibiting the observance of the Partition Horrors Remembrance Day in colleges across the state.