Overview
- The dispute began after SRFTI allowed an event by the Akhil Bharatiya Grahak Panchayat, a group linked to the RSS, which led to a clash on September 27 when students protested the booking.
- A rally associated with the Hindu Jagran Manch reached the campus gate on October 4 and stones and bricks were thrown from outside, injuring at least two female students who required hospital treatment.
- Students have kept classes suspended since September 28 and are pressing for formal FIRs, arrests of those responsible, and the resignations of vice-chancellor Santosh Ajmera and registrar Deepak Kumar.
- The institute says it filed a formal complaint and police maintained a heavy presence while work began to fortify the campus with higher gates, iron grilles, barricades and barbed wire; no arrests have been reported.
- The incidents have prompted solidarity from other film institute student bodies and raised wider questions about protecting open campus culture when politically linked groups use institutional spaces.