Students involved in NEET paper leak agitation facing police crackdown, says AISA
AISA alleges police crackdown, arrests, and biometric-scanning-based identification of student protesters linked to agitation over the alleged NEET paper leak.
- Students protested alleged NEET paper leak and AISA says police actions followed.
- All India Students’ Association is a student organisation that publicly makes these allegations and demands.
- AISA says police action included arrests, detentions, and intimidation of protesters.
- AISA says notices in Delhi’s Jamia Nagar relied on face-scanning or retina scanning to connect people to Jantar Mantar.
What happened: AISA alleges police crackdown during NEET paper leak agitation
The All India Students’ Association (AISA) alleged a nationwide police crackdown targeting students involved in agitation against the alleged NEET paper leak. AISA stated that police actions included arrests and detentions and that intimidation continued even though AISA said protesters were peaceful.
AISA named multiple regions and made the following allegations:
UPSC can use AISA’s allegations to frame how police action during protests must respect rule of law: lawful grounds for arrest, proportionality in crowd control, and contestable, accountable identification methods if biometric scanning is used.
