Overview
- SRFTI deans and department heads rusticated six students for alleged assault on Vice‑Chancellor Santosh Ajmera and vandalism of his office, a step the students’ union says it will legally challenge.
- The institute has suspended regular classes in the Film and Electronic and Digital Media wings until November 13 and ordered campus residents to vacate hostels within 24 hours.
- Students have maintained an academic halt and indefinite sit-in demanding Ajmera’s resignation, revocation of show‑cause notices and an independent probe into attacks they say occurred on September 27 and October 4.
- The administration says students pelted the VC’s office and manhandled the vice‑chancellor, while the union rejects those claims as fabricated and says its protest has been peaceful; both sides have involved police and legal advisers.
- The dispute has left students short of campus housing and halted shoots and workshops, and now risks a longer institutional review by the institute chairman or the central ministry if calls for an independent inquiry gain traction.