First information report

Three

FIRs have since been filed in the case, one based on complaints by ABGP, the second based on complaints by SRFTI authorities and students, and another filed so-and-so by the police.

and SIT has been set up to investigate the incident.

While some BJP leaders have blamed the SRFTI students for the ruckus and for disrespecting Bharat Mata, over 250 filmmakers and artists have condemned the violence against the students, raising demands for a free and fair investigation and assurance of student safety.

Yeah.

The Hindu reports that over the weekend, around 200 additional people were detained, and Delhi Police registered 20 new FIRs connected to the CJP protests.

Wow, so it's escalating.

Definitely.

When the state bypasses standard legal procedures regarding digital assets, it naturally breeds intense suspicion.

Of course it does.

The police are pointing to the FIRs to justify their security grip, but the opposition is pointing to these procedural black holes to justify expanding their protest nationwide until CEC Ganesh Kumar resigns.

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But looking at this, I have to ask: Are the authorities just using a heavy-handed legal tool to smother peaceful dissent? I mean, Malaya Khanna explicitly called for peaceful sit-ins.

Well, if you look at the specific FIRs filed by the police, they paint a picture that is far from peaceful.

Really?

Yeah.

They have filed cases.

The police have filed a First Information Report, an FIR, against Rahul Gandhi, the leader of the opposition.

In late night, of course, he was part of that sit-in, and when he was taken away with other opposition leaders, his sister, Priyanka Gandhi, actually climbed a gate to open the gate and to let the others out.

It was absolute drama and absolute chaos, which is very much a part of Indian politics much of the time.

And because of those high stakes, the response from law enforcement to the gathering has been massive and swift.

The Delhi police have registered three First Information Reports, or FIRs,

OK, three of them.

Yeah, three.

There's no evidence establishing that allegation, but there have been several developments involving members of his family that have generated questions.

For example, in November 2025, Gyanesh Kumar's daughter, Medha Rupam, who's an IS officer, filed FIRs against 60 boot-level officers and seven supervisors.

She alleged negligence and disobedience during SIR.

She in fact was the first officer in the country to do so.

Police Project put out a report called Manufactured Evidence two days before Omar Khalid was first picked up, which kind of talks about how the Delhi police goes about manufacturing evidence against people like Omar Khalid.

and many others, and putting together an entire legal system and FIRs.

There's something called the FIR 53 that also arrested a lot of other young people who were protesters, which made gathering a crime.

So all the information that they had, FIR 53 basically said that if you gathered for a protest, you then become criminalized.

If you are watching this play out online, it is vital to understand the legal mechanics of work.

Hindustan Times explicitly points out that while AAP leaders say a complaint has been filed, the police have not yet registered an FIR, or First Information Report.

Which is a big difference.

Huge.

But that is now to say it's a law now.

And on the 3rd of August, the Supreme Court said, well, the state government could withdraw complaints, the First Information Report, the FIRs, against protesters, except in most serious cases, and that it would frame a new protocol around the use of pellet guns.

like to monitor the police itself, which was really good.

On 18th of August, the Supreme Court again consulted, like the Chief Justice Suryakant appointed a main other retired judge to a five-member high-powered inquiry committee headed by a former Supreme Court judge, Justice R. Subhash Reddy, to look into the allegations of police and paramilitary exes on students.