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CASR STRONGLY CONDEMNS THE CRIMINALISATION OF TISS STUDENTS. WE UPHOLD ACADEMIC FREEDOM AND SOLIDARITY WITH POLITICAL PRISONERS
Date: 15 August 2026
CASR STRONGLY CONDEMNS THE CRIMINALISATION OF TISS STUDENTS. WE UPHOLD ACADEMIC FREEDOM AND SOLIDARITY WITH POLITICAL PRISONERS
The Campaign Against State Repression (CASR) strongly
condemns the escalating investigation by the Mumbai Police against
students, former students and professors of the Tata Institute of Social
Sciences (TISS) in connection with an October 2025 programme
commemorating the late Prof. G N Saibaba.
The arrest of a former TISS student, the issuing of
notices to professors over their communications with students, and the
police scrutiny of routine academic fieldwork demonstrate a deeply
disturbing pattern in which students, teachers, academic spaces,
political expression and even reading material are increasingly being
placed under police surveillance and criminal investigation.
What is particularly alarming is that the investigation
is being expanded to include alleged possession or downloading of books
and literature which the police describe as reflecting “Maoist
ideology”.
*READING A BOOK IS NOT A CRIME*



