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