Mumbai: The Trombay Police registered a First Information Report (FIR) against at least ten students from the Tata Institute of Social Sciences (TISS) in Mumbai, for organising a "peaceful gathering" to commemorate the death anniversary of jailed Dalit activist and former Delhi University professor, GN Saibaba on Monday, October 13.

The FIR also claimed that the students raised slogans in support of former JNU students Sharjeel Imam and Umar Khalid, who are currently behind bars in the Delhi riots case.

The students have been booked under sections of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita (BNS) for causing "prejudice to the nation, promoting enmity between groups, and unlawful assembly". A police officer quoted by The Indian Express said that the gathering was organised without any prior permiss

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