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Rally over police action against students

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JAIPUR: Civil liberties activist groups and women’s organisations held a demonstration in front of the Rajasthan University here over the weekend protesting against police excesses on agitating Nursery Teachers’ Training (NTT) students.

Amid Teachers’ Day celebrations elsewhere in the city, the protesting groups pledged to take up the cause of these teacher trainees who were “brutally treated by the police.” The groups demanded action against the police officers and the Additional District Magistrate who led the lathicharge on the protesters.

People’s Union for Civil Liberties (Rajasthan) general secretary Kavita Srivastava said there was widespread public resentment over the manner in which the police had manhandled, pushed and pulled women and male students. The students were literally thrown into police vehicles in the early hours of Wednesday and booked under serious sections of the Indian Penal Code, including looting. The groups demanded compliance of student-teachers’ demand for restoring NTT’s parity with BSTC as they were halfway through the course and also when the students had been promised an equivalent status for their course vis-a-vis BSTC at the time of counselling. The groups demanded an end to all administrative and police action against the students.

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