Student Protests: Supreme Court to hear today the pleas alleging excessive use of police force against students participating in protests across the country over the issue of exam paper leaks

Bench: CJI Surya Kant, J Joymalya Bagchi and J V Mohana.

Earlier, after Union's prayer to that effect, the Court quashed the FIRs registered across the country over the protests held between July 20-25

The Court however allowed the Delhi Police to pursue one FIR against 2,873 individuals who were present in the Jantar Mantar protests as they had serious criminal antecedents.

Recently, the petitioner side filed an affidavit before the Court stating that in view of #SwatantraBhardwaj's public admissions of assault on a #CockroachJantaParty protestor's father, it is clear that persons with violent tendencies were allowed to infiltrate the Jantar Mantar protests.