STATEMENT IN SOLIDARITY WITH JNU STUDENTS
We, 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.
We therefore, stand 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
Tanisha Pande
Veera Mahuli
Enakshi jha
Sumanyu Mohanty
Sushim Aryan
Raghu Meka
Pratiek
V. Prithvi Bhaskar
Lakshmi Dwivedi
Kartik Chawla
Mayank Samuel
Ritwik Dash
Priyam Tewari
Devarshi Mukhopadhyay
Shreenath Khemka
Prashant Agase
Arpita
Kartik Tripathi
Oshoneesh
Shantanu Dey
Elizabeth Thomas
Kartik D Monga
Mohammed Omer Farooq
Jaideep Kodali
Noel Johns
Daeyoung Jung
Avinash Jamatia
Vishal Raj Meena
Ayush Ranka
Aaryaman Aashind
Srijan Sahay
Soumitra Bose
Sidharth Jha
Akshay Puri
Naveen Hegde
Ravishankar Krishnan
Pranav Agarwal
Kshitij Goyal
Ajatshatru Pandey
Ishan Seth
Manoj K
Shwashreya
Mukesh Kori
Aatmin Shah
Varun Baliga
Sravya K
Kritika Sethi
Megna Sundar
Saachi Kapoor
Harshita Chaudhary
Srishti Khare
Nastassia Khurana
Nikitha Shenoy
Rajlakshmi Sharma
Kopal Sharraf
Anisha Nitin Parikh
Malika Chadha
Tanya Choudhary
Aparna
Pooja Verma
Lakshmi Venkataraman
Pooja Murty
Anjana Reddy
Chinmayi Sharma
Megha Krishnamurthi
Haya Arif
Bhavna Pattanaik
Urmika Tripathi
Preeti Kolluri
Sahana Keshav
Maitreye Parashar
Ranjini Gogoi
Adrija Lakshmi Jayanthy
Abhay Raj Singh Bundela
Pallavi Dehari
Upasana P
Abhijeet Singh Rawaley
Anubhav Sachdev
Ankita Agarwal
Oorvi Mehta
Ashwin Murthy
Sitara Srivatsau
Tanuj Kumar
Aishwarya Raj
Soumya
Namratha
Urvi Rajbhanu
Sruthakeerthy Sriram
Arushi Nayar
Aashutosh Choudhary
Shivam Raman
Alok Kumar
Aashna Chowdary
Gopika Menon
Shubhank Singh
Virajith Mendem
Ujwal Chowhan
Sahir Boppana
Anirudh Singh
Sameer Thakur
Saad Khan
Deep Shah
Mohneesh Rai
Angad Kamath
Abhijit Vellanki
Karthik V
Mayank Dewangan
Akshita
Diksha
Priyanka V
Subhra Tripathy
Anurag Gupta
Ankita Gaur
Sonali Ladha
Jayant Negi
Anurag Pandey
Girish P Karuvelil
Abhishek
Pritish Simon
Yimjungpenta Abigail Longkumar
Phalguni Bhalla
Vishnu Sumanth
Ayush Vijayvargiya
Anushree Pande
Agranee Kapoor
Krishna Priya
Sonia Dasgupta
Gunjan Rai
Vennela
Raji Gururaj
GP Sri Samhitha
Stuti Shah
Kunal Parashar
Yash Anand
Mounika Donur
Sushma Reddy
Sukriti Goyal
Ojashwi KC
Sameera Balani
Balaji Subramanian
Pallavi Balakrishnan
Ananya Das
Paridhi Srivastava
Pradyuman Kaistha
Sanchita Aidasani
Pranjal Gupta
Amritha Kumar
Rakshanda Deka
Dhairya Pratap Singh
Rohan Dewan
Nikitha Surabhi
Aayush Mallik
Tanvi Tuhina
Lokesh Kaza
Avaneendra Khare
Jitesh Anand
Shantanu Mathur
Anna Liz Thomas
Puru Bansal
Utkarsh Roy
Yash Aswal
Vamsi Masireddy
Maitreyee Dixit
Shivsaai Prasad
Shivang Agarwal
Abhishek Babbar
Siddharth Aiyyana
Pranshu Bharti
Aradhika Ratan
Mrudula Karumanchi
Priyamvada Shivaji
Rashmi Gautam
Srija Kumar
Vismita Gehlot
Soumya Jena
Aishwarya Birla
Shweta Rao
Devars Saraf
Megha Mehrotra
Nishanth Vasanth
Rishab Bhatnagar
Geethanjali Jujjuvarapu
Shreya Naik
P Pallavi Neha
M Manideep
Sidharth Sunil
Sanket Pargaien
Siddharth Shekar
Nikhil Reddy
Tushit Mishra
Prabhanjan Singh
Benjamin Varlavena
Ajoy Sinha Karpuram
Shweta Sivaram
Akshay Aryal
Nishanth Nallavelly
Anyatama Nayak
Shaktibhushan Shukla
Aditya Sarkar
Sagar Sarrogi
P Avinash Reddy
Prakhar Gupta
Upasana Soni
Aditi Tomar
Kshitij Aditya Sharma
Sunishth Goyal
Srujana Bej
Mathew Kurian
Mridul Dahiya
Vedant Dixit
Mayank Labh
Shreejoyee Bhattacharya
Harsh Mahaseth
Shagun
Deekshita
Agrima KC
Shivani Bagul
Shubhi Goyal
Amani Ponnaganti
Nishtha Gupta
Purvi Khanna
Pavani Kennedy
Ritika Banerjee
Sadhika Gulati
Zainab Khan
Ribhu Mukherjee
Nilav Banerjee
Parika Kamra
Chandini P Raj
Medha Damojipurapu
Akshada Mishra
Shubham Sharma
Surya P Meena
Aishwarya Joshi
Neha Shivhare
Laukik Raibole
Teachers of Nalsar, University of Law, Hyderabad
Vinoothna
Vidhushi Singhadia
Astha Tambi
Lavish Palliwal
Shubham Sancheti
Lovish Garg
Mukbang Pertin
Akshita Rawat
Aakash Puttige
Rohit Beerapalli
Anjali Singh
Anjali Rawat
Pranshu Bhutra
Manasa M Dhar
Anindita Mukherjee
Muzammil Hassan Choudhary
Shreshtha Das
Prajwal Raj Gayawali
Mingma Lhamu
Anvesh
Abid Yosuf Bhat
Rashmi
Roshan John
Umar Javeed
Snehith
Khansa
Gaurav Tejpal (Research Fellow)
Anshuman Shukla
Sidharth Chauhan
Hota Agni Kumar
Neha Pathakji
N. Vasanthi
T. Kannan
Aruna Venkat
Syed Ashfaq Hussain
SNA Shafi
H. Vageeshan
P. Ashwini Kumar
T. Raghavendra Rao
Amita Dhanda