Agroup of students of the Saket College in Ayodhya have been booked undersedition charges after they allegedly raised 'azaadi' slogans during theirprotest against the delay in announcing the dates of the students' unionelections.
Thepolice have registered a sedition case on the complaint of the collegeprincipal. However, the protesting students denied the allegation and said theywere demanding 'azaadi' from the corrupt principal and anti-student system ofthe college.
Inhis complaint, the principal of the college, N.D. Pandey, said that thestudents were raising anti-national slogans like 'le ke rahenge azaadi' (weshall not rest till we get freedom) on December 16.
Studentswere protesting against the college's decision not to hold students' unionelections.
Onthe basis of the principal's named complaint, police booked Sumit Tiwari, SheshNarayan Pandey, Imran Hashmi, Satvik Pandey, Mohit Yadav and Manoj Mishra underSections 124 A (sedition), 147 (rioting), 188 (disobedience to order), 332 (causinghurt to deter public servant from duty), 342 (wrongfully confinement), 353(assault on public servant), 427 (causing damage to property), 435 (mischief byfire or explosive substance) and 506 (offence of criminal intimidation) of theIndian Penal Code.
"They(students) were raising slogans of 'azaadi', they wanted to take azaadi byrevolt and by violence, by burning the country. It was my duty to protect themotherland, therefore, I have filed the complaint against them," theprincipal told reporters.
AbhasKrishna Yadav, the former president of Saket College students' union, said,"Students were raising 'azaadi' slogans as they were seeking freedom fromthe corrupt principal and anti-student system of the college, and demanding tohold student union elections."