Overview
- Thiruvananthapuram police registered a case against SFI state president Siva Prasad and others for allegedly blocking Vice Chancellor Mohanan Kunnummal’s car, acting on a complaint from the university registrar.
- Sections of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, the Kerala Police Act, and the Kerala Public Way Restriction of Assemblies and Processions Act were invoked in the FIR at Cantonment police station.
- Protests escalated on Wednesday as activists scaled campus walls, police deployed water cannons, and officers ultimately escorted the VC’s vehicle out after repeated blockades.
- The unrest stems from an FIR against Sanskrit department head C. N. Vijayakumari under the SC/ST (Prevention of Atrocities) Act, which she disputes while citing academic grounds for refusing to sign a scholar’s thesis and plagiarism claims reported against the scholar.
- A senate meeting turned chaotic when the VC declined to remove the dean, the registrar lodged a separate complaint alleging obstruction and attempted assault, and a Syndicate meeting is set for November 18 as Left groups pledge to continue their agitation.