NAJAR Backs APU Students, Condemns ABVP Violence, Demands FIR Withdrawal
National Alliance for Justice, Accountability and Rights | 27 February 2026 | Countercurrents
The National Alliance for Justice Accountability and Rights (NAJAR) a collective of lawyers, law students and legal professionals across India expresses its unequivocal solidarity with the students of Azim Premji University and the members of Spark Reading Circle in the wake of the recent assault on campus democracy by members of ABVP as well as by APU administration.
We strongly condemn the forcible entry and vandalism carried out by members of the Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad (ABVP) on the Bengaluru campus of Azim Premji University. Disrupting a peaceful academic discussion, scribbling threats such as “Ban Spark,” intimidating students, targeting individuals on the basis of their attire and identity, and attempting to communalise an intellectual engagement are not acts of student politics, they are acts of coercion and violence. They strike at the very heart of what a university space is meant to embody: dialogue, dissent, and critical inquiry…