A Few students from the Tata Institute of Social Sciences (TISS) and civil society members, who are part of a group called Collective Mumbai, were detained by the Trombay police on Wednesday evening for staging a protest outside the TISS Mumbai campus. The demonstration was held to oppose what the group termed as “anti-student” policies of the institute’s management and to express solidarity with fellow student Ramadas Prini Sivanandan, a suspended PhD scholar and member of the Students’ Federation of India (SFI) Central Executive Committee. They were later released.

Collective Mumbai—a student-led group comprising TISS students, writers, activists, and members of various left and Dalit organisations—claimed to have organised the protest to defend freedom of speech and protect democratic spaces within the campus.