Lawyers Condemn Delhi Police Violence Against Student Protesters At Jantar Mantar, Seek Accountability

A group of over 650 lawyers, including several senior advocates, has issued a statement condemning the alleged use of force by the Delhi Police against student protesters at Jantar Mantar on July 20, calling the police action an attack on the constitutional values of free expression and the right to dissent.

The statement, signed by Senior Advocates Indira Jaising, Raju Ramachandran, Chander Uday Singh, Sanjay Hegde, Huzefa Ahmadi, Rebecca M John, Nandita Rao, Sanjay Parikh, Anjana Prakash, Gopal Sankaranarayanan, Gopal Subramanium, Jayant Bhushan, Shadan Farasat, Warisha Farasat, Navin R. Nath, Sumita Hazarika, Sanjay Ghose, Sidharth Luthra, Anand Grover, Amit Anand Tiwari, PV Dinesh, Manali Singhal, Advocates Prashnat Bhushan, Vrinda Grover and over 620 other lawyers, expressed solidarity with the protesters and urged authorities to hold those responsible for any excessive use of force accountable.

"We, the undersigned lawyers, condemn the use of violence by Delhi Police against peaceful youth protestors at Jantar Mantar on 20th July 2026," the statement said.

Describing the incident as "unacceptable", the lawyers said that students were met with violence instead of dialogue. They asserted that "police brutality against protesting students is an attack on the principles of free expression, human dignity, and the right to dissent."

The signatories said they stood in solidarity with all those who had been "harmed, intimidated and traumatized" during the police action.

Referring to the demands raised by the students, the lawyers said that calls by the youth for accountability should have been met with respect "as students and the future of our country." They further observed that "the Parliament of India is not an ivory tower that should be beyond the reach of its citizens."

The statement urged that those responsible for the alleged excessive use of force be held accountable and that every effort be made to safeguard the rights and safety of citizens engaging in peaceful protest.

"We hope that the Government and Constitutional Institutions will step in to ensure the safety of peaceful protesters," the lawyers said.

The statement was also signed by Gautam Bhatia, Avi Singh, Pyoli, Omanakuttan, Ramesh Mishra, Sumeet Sharma, Cheryl D'Souza, Mayank Yadav, Dinhar Takiar, Ruchi Singh, Jagmeet Randhawa, Aekta Vats, R.S. Kundu, M.L. Yadav, Smriti Asmita, Rajat Wadhwa, Sudershan Rajan, Rajesh Mahajan, Shahrukh Alam, P.V.S. Giridhar, Rachana Joshi Issar, Talha Abdul Rahman, Fuzzail Ahmed Ayyubi,  among others.

List of signatories :

1. Anne Mathew
2. Sanchita Ain
3. C Sanal Nambiar
4. Monika
5. Sumita Hazarika
6. Subhash Chandran KR
7. Manali Singh
8. Khushboo Nahar
9. Pooja Dodd
10. Warisha Farasat
11. Radha Lakshmi
12. Richa Kapoor
13. A.S. Padkiyal
14. Jaimon Andrews
15. Tanvi Sharma
16. Surya Rajappan
17. Yashodhara Burmon Roy
18. Anirudh K P
19. Nayantara Roy
20. Ujjaini Chatterji
21. Nivedita Nair
22. Siddharth Raja
23. Sidharth Luthra
24. Ritesh Kumar
25. Prashant Bhushan
26. Indira Jaising
27. Raju Ramachandran
28. Chander Uday Singh
29. Sanjay Hegde
30. Vrinda Grover
31. Huzefa Ahmadi
32. Nandita Rao
33. Sanjay Parikh
34. Anjana Prakash
35. Navin R Nath
36. Amit Anand Tiwari
37. P V Dinesh
38. Avi Singh
39. Pyoli
40. Omanakuttan
41. Ramesh Mishra
42. Sumeet Sharma
43. Cheryl D'Souza
44. Mayank Yadav
45. Dinhar Takiar
46. Ruchi Singh
47. Jagmeet Randhawa
48. Aekta Vats
49. R S Kundu
50. M L Yadav
51. Maninder Singh
52. Smriti Asmita
53. Rajat Wadhwa
54. Sudershan Rajan
55. Rajesh Mahajan
56. Shahrukh Alam
57. PVS Giridhar
58. Rachana Joshi Issar
59. Rahul Chitnis
60. Surabhi Dhar
61. Prerna Agarwal
62. Aadil Singh Boparai
63. Adit Pujari
64. Karuna Nundy
65. Maneka Guruswamy
66. Mihir Desai
67. Colin Gonsalves
68. Anand Grover
69. Rebecca John
70. Aparna Bhat
71. Shadan Farasat
72. Gautam Bhatia
73. Talha Abdul Rahman
74. Faisal Sherwani
75. Saurabh Kirpal
76. Sanjoy Ghose
77. Nipun Saxena
78. Sushil Kumar Tekriwal
79. Abhinav Sekhri
80. Adit S Pujari
81. Akriti Chaubey
82. Amandeep Kaur
83. Amba Kak
84. Amit George
85. Amit Pai
86. Anmol Jain
87. Anup Surendranath
88. Apar Gupta
89. Arjun Krishnan
90. Arshdeep Singh
91. Ashima Mandla
92. Ashok Agarwal
93. Astha Sharma
94. Avani Bansal
95. Avinash Kumar
96. Ayush Anand
97. Bhavya Dore
98. Chitranshul Sinha
99. Devadatt Kamat
100. Devika Tulsiani
101. Dheeraj Nair
102. Disha Wadekar
103. Divya Sharma
104. Fuzail Ahmad Ayyubi
105. Gopal Sankaranarayanan
106. Gopal Subramanium
107. Harpreet Hora
108. Harsh Bora
109. Harshita Pathak
110. Hemant Batra
111. Imran Ali
112. Jayna Kothari
113. Jehangir Ali
114. Jessica Lalchhandama
115. K Parameshwar
116. Kanu Agrawal
117. Karanjawala & Co. (Representative)
118. Kavita Krishnan
119. Krishnan Venugopal
120. Kunal Mimani
121. Lakshmi Ramanathan
122. M R Shamshad
123. Madhuvan Dutt Choudhary
124. Mahesh Jethmalani
125. Malvika Prasad
126. Meenakshi Arora
127. Mohit Mathur
128. Mukul Rohatgi
129. N Sai Vinod
130. Neha Rathi
131. Nishanth Patnaik
132. P B Suresh
133. Pallavi Pratap
134. Parul Sharma
135. Prasanna S
136. Prateek Chadha
137. Prerna Singh
138. Priya Hingorani
139. Rahul Narayan
140. Rajat Nair
141. Rajeev Dhavan
142. Rakesh Dwivedi
143. Rishi Agrawala
144. Rohit Sharma
145. Sajan Poovayya
146. Sameer Rohatgi
147. Sandeep Sethi
148. Sandesh Patil
149. Sanjay Jain
150. Sanjay Kumar
151. Sanjeev Bhandari
152. Sarim Naved
153. Satya Mitra
154. Shadan Farasat
155. Shahrukh Alam
156. Shantanu Singh
157. Sharukh Alam
158. Shibu Thomas
159. Shiv Kumar
160. Shreya Rastogi
161. Siddharth Dave
162. Siju P
163. Sneha Kalita
164. Soumya Dutta
165. Sriram Panchu
166. Sudhir Nandrajog
167. Sumeer Sodhi
168. Suneel Gupta
169. Sushant Singh
170. Tanveer Ahmed Mir
171. Tarannum Cheema
172. Udayaditya Banerjee
173. Ujjwal Kumar
174. V Giri
175. Vaibhav Tomar
176. Varun Chopra
177. Vikas Pahwa
178. Vineet Jindal
179. Vinod Sharma
180. Vipin Nair
181. Vivek Sood
182. Yasmin Sheikh
183. Yogesh Khanna
184. Aarti Bhansali
185. Abha Singh
186. Abhinav Chandrachud
187. Aditya Sondhi
188. Ajit Sinha
189. Alakh Alok Srivastava
190. Aljo K Joseph
191. Alok Prasanna Kumar
192. Amritanand Chakravarti
193. Ananth Padmanabhan
194. Anil Divan
195. Anjana Gosain
196. Ankit Yadav
197. Anoop George Chaudhari
198. Anshuman Mohanty
199. Arjun Garg
200. Arvind Datar
201. Ashish Dixit
202. Ashwini Kumar Upadhyay
203. Asim Sarode
204. Aviral Jain
205. Bimal Roy Jad
206. Chaitanya Ramachandran
207. Deepak Prakash
208. Deepali Datta
209. Devika Agarwal
210. Dhananjay Mishra
211. Sakshi Tikmany
212. Anamika Mishra
213. Smruthi Gangadharaiah
214. Shiraz bulsara prabhu
215. Shradha Agrawal
216. Seema Misra
217. Indira jaising
218. Muskan Tibrewala
219. Sanskruti yagnik
220. Arzoo Raj
221. Disha Wadekar
222. Srishty Jaura
223. Anurag Bhaskar
224. Natasha Maheshwari
225. Ankur Das
226. Shubhangi Singh
227. Haritima Kavia
228. Rajesh Inamdar
229. Bharat Chugh
230. Harshali gore
231. Madhuri singh
232. Pushp Sharma
233. Ritesh Sharma
234. Mohammed Saud ur Rehman Siddiqui
235. Advocate Abhishek Gautam
236. Adv. Anshul Muwal
237. Srashti
238. Shivani Aggarwal
239. Aman Rai
240. Harshita Didel
241. Prakher Shukla
242. Pulkit Dahiya
243. Kritika Joshi
244. Sakshi
245. Kamal Rao
246. Anjali Rasuni Kumari
247. Noyonika
248. Kanishka
249. Praveen Kumar
250. Arushi
251. Divyanshu Bishnoi
252. Sarthak Mittal
253. Vishal sethi
254. Sagarika Singh
255. Urvashi yadav
256. Abhishek Raj Kashyap
257. Simran Jot Singh
258. Chanchal Agarwal
259. Ali Akib
260. Sagar Kumar
261. Akshat Joshi
262. Puranjai Sabharwal
263. Sahil Saraswat
264. Sayantani Dey
265. Sarita Malik
266. Nivedita Dalal
267. Unnati Gupta
268. Madonna
269. Raunak
270. Rohit Ghosh
271. Samyak Jain
272. Sanjana Goyal
273. Diya Sarah
274. Tanzeela Javed
275. Shivamm Singh
276. Shubham Kumar
277. Arham Tanvir
278. Neha Singh
279. Puru Lekhi
280. Garima yadav
281. Tanya Harnal
282. Anushka
283. Shefali
284. Vaishnavi Pachade
285. Kritika Sharma
286. Nitya Agrawal
287. Siddhant tomar
288. Divyansh Madhurendra
289. Twinkle Khan
290. Utkarsh Anand
291. Sourav Saini
292. Kapil Chandel
293. Chetan
294. Snehal Gupta
295. Prapti
296. Nitin Jangir
297. Anant K. Chaudhary
298. Devesh Sharma (Advocate, Delhi High Court)
299. Vedica Gupta
300. Priyanka Jaiswal
301. Kriti Sharma
302. Adv Mariya
303. Himanshu Yadav
304. Siddharth Gupta
305. Swaraj Maurya
306. Aditi Bharadwaj
307. Arpit yadav
308. Saral Sharma
309. AKSHAY SAGAR
310. Kriti bishnoi
311. Abhishek Prajapati
312. Richa Pandey
313. Harsh Bansal
314. shivani
315. Ankesh Tripathi
316. Advocate Keshav Gahlawat
317. Ratnesh Pandey
318. Prakhar Verma
319. Shashwat Gupta
320. Divyanshi Sadpuriya
321. Soham Sarkar
322. Arpit Agrawal
323. Saswat Kumar Rout
324. Etti sharma
325. Adv. Reeba Joy
326. Adv Mohd Javed
327. Prerna
328. Asangha Rai
329. Avanshika R Ravat
330. Anmol Jain
331. Sahil Jha
332. Vishesh Choudhary
333. Yashvi Rajpurohit
334. Krishna Kumar
335. Akash Kishore
336. Dipto Ghosh
337. Adv Tanisha Yadav
338. Manu Kumar
339. Angad Gautam
340. Adv Omkar Charan
341. Priya
342. Pranav Kumar
343. Saquib Neshat
344. Atul Khare
345. Raghav Kacker
346. Anushka Sarraf
347. Bipul Raj
348. Ansh Jain
349. Prashanth Sharmila Prakash
350. Akshay Pathak
351. Sarthak Jain
352. Priyanshu Vishwakarma
353. Rut Pawar
354. Anshima Agarwal
355. Pratyush Pratap Singh
356. Vivek Prakash
357. Ridansh Dubey
358. Harshil Manchanda
359. Meera Sanghamitra
360. Palak Sharma
361. Ayushman
362. Archit Kaushik
363. Aakash Soni
364. Jui Koley
365. Ankit Nishchal
366. Harshita Singh
367. Khushi
368. Trishika rana
369. Rahul
370. Manya Mittal
371. Ashika
372. Nishant Dwivedi
373. Varun Bajaj
374. Rushikesh Malve
375. Himanshu kumar Thakur
376. Sharad Trivedi
377. Ambuj Agrawal
378. Siddhant Bajaj
379. Aerica
380. Subart
381. Adv Harsha Mishra
382. HARSHIT SABOO
383. Siddharth Dua
384. Shubham Gupta
385. Shreyasker Shukla
386. Shoaib Khan
387. Kamakshi Joshi
388. Ayush Sachan
389. Vineet Pandey
390. Nitin Rathore
391. Krishna Raj
392. Advocate Kamran Alam
393. Inish Mishra
394. Sayan Gautam
395. Diganta Das
396. Aditya Kumar Singh
397. Anubhav Singhal
398. Ishank Shukla
399. Andleeb Naqvi
400. Priyanka Chaudhary
401. Himadri Badoni
402. P. C. Sen
403. Suranya Aiyar
404. Ritu
405. Khushboo Goel
406. Abhishek Kumar
407. Nilofar Khan
408. Vaishnavi Singh
409. Prateek Bhardwaj
410. Abhishek antil
411. Sudarshan Rajan
412. Tahira Kathpalia
413. Kapil
414. Monica Bhandari Solanki
415. Ravi
416. Anup Kumar Sinha
417. Tamali Wad
418. Ajit Pudussery
419. Dinesh Meena
420. Sachin Saraswat
421. Remya Thomas
422. Gauri Sharma
423. Samiksha Godiyal
424. Ujjwala
425. Annamma Mathew
426. Gayatri Singh
427. Avichal Mishra
428. Avinash B Amarnath
429. Ashish Mishra
430. Raksha Mallya
431. Aditya Sharma
432. Jayant Goyal
433. Augustine Ezhakunnel
434. Krishna Kumar
435. Aravindakshan Nair
436. Kamya Vishwanath
437. Aakaanksha Akella
438. Dhruv Bhalla
439. Saurabh Kumar Singh
440. Smiti Verma
441. Manjeet Gupta
442. Naavya Sharma
443. Sumit Rohilla
444. Susan Abraham
445. Sumit
446. Pritesh Kumar
447. Sumit Kumar
448. Amita Joseph
449. Sumiit V Rastogi
450. Vanshika Bansal
451. Vivek Sharma
452. Yash Tiwari
453. Satish Chauhan
454. Monalisa Kosaria
455. Richa Choudhary
456. Rohini Arora
457. Siya Maheshwari
458. Anushka Khaitan
459. Shrey Singh
460. Adv Zaid Qureshi
461. Nida Khan Salim
462. Shuchita Chaubey
463. Mehna Ibrahim
464. Shridhar Madane
465. Surabhi Suman
466. Ritang Singh, Advocate
467. Mayank Arora
468. Malavika Rajkotia
469. Miriam Fozia Rahman
470. Parijat Karan
471. Rishav Sharma
472. Shifa Shikalgar
473. Rahul Tyagi
474. Shantanu Kumar
475. Mohd Ajmal
476. Vidhya
477. Anshita Arora
478. Medovisienuo Dahou
479. Shivani Chaudhary
480. Abhihith Pamarthi
481. Tara Narula
482. Mahika Bisht
483. Tanishqua Pande
484. Ruchi Gupta
485. Varsha
486. Arjun Chopra
487. Anchal M Khanna
488. Nimisha Tripathi
489. Aliya Khan
490. Rahul E
491. Jigyasa Tanwar
492. Shruti Aggarwal
493. Ritika Sinha
494. Imama
495. Masira Tamboli
496. Rekha Saroha
497. Pragya Thomas
498. Akriti Gupta
499. Uttam Ghosh
500. Tarunjeet Singh Taneja
501. Srushti Iyer
502. Nishita
503. Anuj Arora
504. Austin Rodrigues
505. Vedant Chahal
506. Anushka
507. Prachi Kohli
508. Faredoon Bhujwala
509. Jerald D'Souza, Advocate
510. Chitransha
511. Arpit Raj
512. Prasanna S
513. Aditi Rao
514. Karishma Padia
515. Aastha K
516. Srishti Agnihotri
517. Shreya Munoth
518. Shomona Khanna
519. Anisha Upadhyay
520. Juhi Porwal
521. Jenifer D'Souza
522. Ahaan Bishnoi
523. Adv Jahanawaz
524. Manu Abhishek Bhardwaj
525. Geo Joseph
526. Sanjeev Patel
527. Anand Bishnoi, Advocate
528. Shariq Khan
529. Praveena N S
530. Astitva Srivastava
531. Prashant Sankhla
532. Rakesh Pal
533. Ashish Purushottam
534. Solomon
535. Kundan Kumar Lal
536. Shivani Antil
537. Sneha Mathew
538. Yashmeet Sehrawat
539. Rakesh Kumar Singh
540. Ashok Agrawal
541. Adv Laxmipriya Nath
542. Tom Joseph, Adv.
543. Yuvraj Kumar, Patna High Court
544. Pundrikaksh Sharma
545. Nishad L S
546. Liz Thachet
547. Lokesh Krishna
548. Ayan Sharma
549. Aakash Jindal
550. Pramod Singh
551. Parvati Nambiar
552. Stephen Mathew
553. James Daniel David
554. Raghav Priyadarshi
555. Diya Kapur
556. Kshitij Maheshwari
557. Santosh Paul
558. Amit R Charan
559. Malvi Dedhia
560. Aman Bhalla
561. Adv. Julius Tudu
562. Pratham Darad
563. Jayant Bhushan
564. Pranaya Goyal
565. Tarun Bhushan
566. Kartikeya Singh
567. Vaishnavi Prasad
568. Animesh Khandelwal, Advocate
569. Sai Vinod
570. Sanskriti Sidana
571. Puja Tupere
572. Advocate Kunal Dutt
573. Gautam Khazanchi
574. Anjali Yadav
575. Charu Sharma
576. Yashvi Sugumar
577. Harin P Raval
578. Strongly Condemn
579. Maulik Khurana
580. Anish Singh
581. Gayatri Gulati
582. Rebecca John
583. Aditi Rai
584. Trishagautam
585. Harshad V Hameed
586. Madhav Deepak
587. Ninni Susan Thomas
588. Adrija Bhadra
589. Mohd Noumaan
590. Rana Mukherjee
591. Abishek Jebaraj
592. Harman Preet Kaur Dua
593. Arya Suresh Nair
594. Kiran Bala Agarwal
595. A Reyna Shruti
596. Robin V.S.
597. M.F. Philip
598. Shreeya Kotnis
599. Praveen K Singh
600. PVS Giridhar
601. Shourya Sanyal
602. Sam C Mathew
603. Aarya Rajebhosale
604. Shivani Sinha
605. Vishal Kapoor
606. Aditi Prakash
607. Medha Kolanu
608. Ansh Mittal
609. Gyanendra Kumar Shukla
610. Pranjal Kumar Pranao
611. Shreyas Jain
612. Widaphi Lyngdoh
613. Sanjai Kumar Pathak
614. Yashna Singh
615. Vivek Kr Singh
616. Khushi Tomar
617. Sandeep Gupta, Advocate, Patna High Court
618. Wamika Trehan
619. Anisha Rastogi
620. Pallavi Sridhar
621. Pooja Ahuja
622. Hasnat Nazki
623. Dimple Rathee
624. Shashank Tiwari
625. Vivekanandh
626. Jyoti Dutt
627. Jyoti Dutt
628. Ayan Garg