- Rajesh Tyagi/ June 8, 2015
The registration was cancelled by the IIT, Madras, an elite
institution in technology, pursuant to a meeting of the APSC on April
14, 2015, after an anonymous complaint that APSC was spreading hatred
among communities and against the Government, was allegedly received by the IIT authorities.
The registration is given to independent and unofficial
student bodies, under guidelines of the IIT, that enable these bodies to use
the name and infrastructure of the institution for their activities. The rules
have no statutory status or backing.
The disputed action in cancelling the registration of APSC
was taken by the local authorities at IIT, Madras, in consultation with the Ministry of Human
Resources and Development (HRD). It was opposed by all sections across the
society, except the extreme right wing elements associated with the Modi
Government. The action was broadly viewed as an assault upon freedom of
expression and association and is ultimately reversed by the authorities in the backdrop of widespread opposition to it.
