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ABVP seeks halt to Umar Khalid film at NLSIU
The Hindu··13 Sept
ABVP Bengaluru on September 13 asked NLSIU to cancel a September 14 screening of Lalit Vachani's documentary on Umar Khalid. The group said it filed a complaint and got no reply. The film is titled Prisoner No. 626710 is Present. Advocate Girish Bharadwaj also emailed the Vice-Chancellor seeking cancellation, while saying a balanced academic debate on detention law could continue.
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What It Means For You
- ABVP named September 14 as the planned campus screening date.
- University permissions for the event are under challenge from ABVP and a lawyer.
- Bharadwaj said any civil liberties discussion would require multiple expert views.
What's Happening
- ABVP called the screening political propaganda and urged immediate cancellation.
- It linked Khalid to controversies around the 2016 JNU protests and later protests.
- Bharadwaj emailed the Vice-Chancellor and Registrar on September 12.
Who Is Objecting
- ABVP is the RSS-affiliated student organisation making the campus complaint.
- The documentary named in the statement is by filmmaker Lalit Vachani.
- The sourced reports do not record an NLSIU public reply.
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