A case was registered on Friday against professor Deepak Pawar of the University of Mumbai and some 250 others who had staged a protest against government resolutions (GR) introducing Hindi as a third language in schools in Maharashtra, police said.

Copies of the government resolutions (GR) introducing Hindi as a third language from Class 1 had been burnt during the event on June 29.

Shiv Sena (UBT) chief Uddhav Thackeray, some other opposition leaders and a few Marathi actors had also attended the protest, but their names did not figure in the First Information Report (FIR).