We, the undersigned, are alumni from the National University of Juridical Sciences, Kolkata. As Indian citizens and members of the legal fraternity, we feel compelled to put forth this statement in opposition of the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) and the atrocities that have been perpetrated post its enactment.
The CAA has been enacted with the stated intent of removing hurdles in granting citizenship to persecuted Hindus, Sikhs, Christians, Jains, Buddhists and Parsis, who have arrived from Pakistan, Afghanistan and Bangladesh prior to 31st December, 2014. However, the impact of the CAA alongside the proposed nationwide National Citizens Register (NRC), will, in all likelihood, lead to the persecution of several segments of the population, most notably the Muslim community which has been excluded from the CAA. The potential impact of the NRC on many other communities who may struggle with documentation cannot be overstated.
The collective impact of the CAA and NRC threatens the very fabric of India.
It runs afoul of our constitutional principles, our obligations under the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and the cornerstone of international refugee law– the principle of non-refoulment. We view the CAA and its implementation with a strong sense of foreboding–one that may polarise our beloved nation beyond repair.
We also stand in solidarity with student communities and citizens across the country, who are peacefully voicing their opposition against CAA. We do not condone violence in protests, but we strongly condemn the brutality and disproportionate force used by law enforcement authorities in various parts of the country, including Uttar Pradesh and Delhi to muzzle dissent, particularly in educational institutions. We demand that those responsible for such atrocities be held accountable under law.
We appeal to the Government of India to respect the fundamental right to peaceful protest and allow the free exercise of this right across the country.
NB: This represents the views of the signatories below. We understand that there may be dissent among certain members of the alumni – however, we categorically dissociate ourselves from any views supporting CAA and state violence.
Total no. of signatories as of 10:17 to 21:14:13 on 17.12.2019 – 402
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Name |
Batch |
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1. |
Satchit Bhogle |
2016 |
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2. |
Ulka Bhattacharyya 
|
2016 |
|
3. |
Mansi Binjrajka |
2018 |
|
4. |
Rishabhdev Jain |
2015 |
|
5. |
Alphonsa Jojan |
2008-2013 |
|
6. |
R Ranjan |
2010 |
|
7. |
Pranav Mittal |
2011 |
|
8. |
Ira Chadha-Sridhar |
2019 |
|
9. |
Sushruti |
|
|
10. |
Durga Priya Manda |
2015 |
|
11. |
Akshit Goyal |
2017 |
|
12. |
Abhijnan Jha |
2013 |
|
13. |
Neeti Bhatt |
2016 |
|
14. |
Vaneesha |
2011 |
|
15. |
Akhileshwari Reddy |
2016 |
|
16. |
Shruti Khetan |
2014- 2019 |
|
17. |
Mihika Poddar |
2019 |
|
18. |
Ankita Mandal |
2016 |
|
19. |
Avinandan Kundu |
2016 |
|
20. |
Akshay Sharma |
2015 |
|
21. |
Sankalp S Srivastava |
2018 |
|
22. |
Shouvik Kumar Guha |
2010 |
|
23. |
Siddhant Sharma |
2018 |
|
24. |
Pavishka Mittal |
2019 |
|
25. |
Pratik Datta |
2010 |
|
26. |
Apeksha Dhanvijay |
2019 |
|
27. |
Shivam |
2017 |
|
28. |
Anushree Malaviya |
2018 |
|
29. |
Saubhagya Raj Alfred |
2018 |
|
30. |
Divyanshu D |
2015 |
|
31. |
Anubhav Dutt Tiwari |
|
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32. |
Deepank Singhal |
2019 |
|
33. |
Srishti Aishwarya |
2009-2014 |
|
34. |
Yash Maheshwari |
2019 |
|
35. |
Atreyo Banerjee |
2014-19 |
|
36. |
Kunal Chatterji |
2005 |
|
37. |
Neha Mathen |
2015 |
|
38. |
Namrata Roy |
2019 |
|
39. |
Kirtikar Srivastava |
2018 |
|
40. |
Aneek Bangabash |
2008 |
|
41. |
Varsha Bhattacharya |
2013 |
|
42. |
Vishrov Mukerjee |
2007 |
|
43. |
Shezin Waziha Hussain |
2009 |
|
44. |
Ashish Arun |
2010 |
|
45. |
Ambika Sahai |
2017 |
|
46. |
Priyanka Raj |
2007-2012 |
|
47. |
Subhajit Banerji |
2011 |
|
48. |
Shardha |
2019 |
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49. |
Malavika Chandu |
2009-2014 |
|
50. |
Naman Khatwani |
2019 |
|
51. |
Piyush Karn |
2012 |
|
52. |
Sanika Gokhale |
2016 |
|
53. |
Aditi |
2009-2014 |
|
54. |
Abhiroop Lahiri |
2009 |
|
55. |
Vinayak Mehrotra |
2014 |
|
56. |
Ameya Vikram Mishra |
2017 |
|
57. |
Shilpa Margaret Ekka |
2014 |
|
58. |
Samhita Mandal |
2015 |
|
59. |
Shaishir Divatia |
2019 |
|
60. |
Kshitij Maheshwari |
2018 |
|
61. |
Shreyangshi Gupta |
2014-2019 |
|
62. |
Sanchari Ghosh |
2015 |
|
63. |
Vidhisha Ambade |
2019 |
|
64. |
Akanksha Mahapatra |
2013 |
|
65. |
Ratnavel Pandian |
2016 |
|
66. |
Aditya Kapoor |
2005-10 |
|
67. |
Umang Poddar |
2019 |
|
68. |
Yash Vijayvargiya |
2016 |
|
69. |
Pranjal Srivastava |
2018 |
|
70. |
Aishwarya Gupta |
2018 |
|
71. |
Isha Choudhary |
2019 |
|
72. |
Oieshi Saha |
2018 |
|
73. |
Arhat Chhabra |
2013-2018 |
|
74. |
Leah Thomas |
Batch of 2018 |
|
75. |
Ananya Mukherjee |
2018 |
|
76. |
Krishanu Roy |
2016 |
|
77. |
Akshay Jose |
2018 |
|
78. |
Pratik Ranjan Das |
2017 |
|
79. |
Aryan Agrawal |
2020 |
|
80. |
Tulika Paul |
2016 |
|
81. |
Sarthak Sood |
2014-19 |
|
82. |
Mansi Birla |
2018 |
|
83. |
Rupa Roy |
2014 |
|
84. |
M U Ganashruthi |
2009 |
|
85. |
Robin Grover |
2012-2017 |
|
86. |
Amrita Sarkar |
2013 |
|
87. |
Ketaki Purohit |
2011 |
|
88. |
Shreyashi Ray |
2011-2016 |
|
89. |
Manthan Jindal |
2019 |
|
90. |
Abhyudaya Agarwal |
2006-2011 |
|
91. |
Rishi Ray |
2012-2107 |
|
92. |
Anusha Peri |
2018 |
|
93. |
Saniya Mirani |
2019 |
|
94. |
Soumyaditya Dasgupta |
2019 |
|
95. |
Asmita Roy |
2016 |
|
96. |
Saptarshi Mandal |
2017 |
|
97. |
Varun Ramdas |
2018 |
|
98. |
Abhiroop De |
2017 |
|
99. |
Vishal Narula |
2017 |
|
100. |
Chitwan Deep Singh |
2016 |
|
101. |
Farhan Shehab Umar |
2018 |
|
102. |
Monalisa Kosaria |
2014 |
|
103. |
Prafful Goyal |
2018 |
|
104. |
Nithya Rajshekhar |
2014 |
|
105. |
Sanchit Garg |
2011-2016 |
|
106. |
Anish Singhvi |
2014 |
|
107. |
H. Murali Krishnan |
2009-2014 |
|
108. |
Akanksha Choudhary |
2014 |
|
109. |
Archismita |
2014 |
|
110. |
Anirudh Srinivas |
2011 |
|
111. |
Shreya Hansda |
2022 |
|
112. |
Swagata Raha |
2005 |
|
113. |
Ankur Singh |
2015 |
|
114. |
A Padmanabhan |
2012 |
|
115. |
Sindhu Rao |
2015 |
|
116. |
Avani Chokshi |
2013 |
|
117. |
Yousa Lachenp |
2000 |
|
118. |
Aritra Mondal |
2017-2022 |
|
119. |
Kruthika NS |
2017 |
|
120. |
Shivam Chauhan |
2018 |
|
121. |
Winnu Das |
2018 |
|
122. |
Pranav Bansal |
2015 |
|
123. |
Aparimita Pratap |
2019 |
|
124. |
Shubhankar Jain |
2019 |
|
125. |
Gauri Shukla |
2018 |
|
126. |
Titli Datta |
2001-2006 |
|
127. |
Madhuparna Dasgupta |
2008 |
|
128. |
Sanchari Saha Menon |
2000 |
|
129. |
Dipankar Bandyopadhyay |
2005 |
|
130. |
Abhinav Tigga |
2014 |
|
131. |
Avik Biswas |
2006 |
|
132. |
Ipshita Sengupta |
2005 |
|
133. |
Shatarupa Dasgupta |
2008 |
|
134. |
Vishnu Chandran |
2011 |
|
135. |
Yaman Mannan |
2000 |
|
136. |
Yes I Agree |
2008 |
|
137. |
Mahima Selvakumar |
2019 |
|
138. |
Dilme R M Momin |
2018 |
|
139. |
Murtaza Somjee |
2008 |
|
140. |
Smaran Shetty |
2014 |
|
141. |
Varsha Shivanagowda |
2015 |
|
142. |
Tania Sarcar |
2006-2011 |
|
143. |
Tanvi Varma |
2010-15 |
|
144. |
Aishwarya Giridhar |
2016 |
|
145. |
Dinesh Chouhan |
2018 |
|
146. |
Medha Srivastava |
2007 |
|
147. |
Moneshaa |
2019 |
|
148. |
Jeet Chaudhuri |
Batch of 2013 |
|
149. |
Devaang Agarwalla |
2016 |
|
150. |
Amulya Sharma |
2017 |
|
151. |
Vikram Lakshman |
2016 |
|
152. |
Rahul Rai |
|
|
153. |
Ramanuj Gopalan |
2007 |
|
154. |
Abhishek Shandilya |
2018 |
|
155. |
Akshath |
2018 |
|
156. |
Shayonee Dasgupta |
2012 |
|
157. |
Wasim Uddin Siraj |
2002-2007 |
|
158. |
Yashaswi Kant |
2015 |
|
159. |
Tundra Guha |
2007 |
|
160. |
Vasudha Sharma |
2013 |
|
161. |
Bharath Ajith Sreenivasan |
2017 |
|
162. |
Adrija Das |
2014 |
|
163. |
Arunima Chatterjee |
2015 |
|
164. |
Sidhant Chandalia |
2016 |
|
165. |
Sagnik Ghose |
2001 |
|
166. |
Kanak Bose |
2015 |
|
167. |
Anamika Gode |
2016 |
|
168. |
Mohammed Abid Hussain |
200i |
|
169. |
Ananya Bajpai |
2023 |
|
170. |
Sai Vinod |
2013 |
|
171. |
Aishwarya Ayushmaan |
2015 |
|
172. |
Vasudha Reddy |
2009 |
|
173. |
Nalin Kanaujia |
2015 |
|
174. |
Poulomi Saha |
2006-2011 |
|
175. |
Arun Geetesh |
2009 |
|
176. |
Paavni Anand |
2017 |
|
177. |
Soumya Shanker |
2010 |
|
178. |
Anirudh Vohra |
2016 |
|
179. |
Aman Taneja |
2013 |
|
180. |
Sankarshana Meeyala |
2013 |
|
181. |
Mrunmayee Malabika |
2009 |
|
182. |
Shweta Luthra |
2002—07 |
|
183. |
Aindrila Biswas |
2012 |
|
184. |
Antara S Priya |
2010-2015 |
|
185. |
Gaurav Dasgupta |
2002-07 |
|
186. |
Anuj Sahay |
2008 |
|
187. |
Shobhit Shukla |
2019 |
|
188. |
Kabir Manchanda |
3016 |
|
189. |
Kushagr Bakshi |
2019 |
|
190. |
Ananya Sanyal |
2006 |
|
191. |
Gayatri Menon |
2012 |
|
192. |
Raktima Roy |
2016 |
|
193. |
Nikhil Pratap |
2017 |
|
194. |
Muqeet Drabu |
2017 |
|
195. |
Ira Chatterjee |
2007 |
|
196. |
Kinshuk Jhunjhunwala |
2010 |
|
197. |
Anwesha |
2008 |
|
198. |
Arindrajit Basu |
|
|
199. |
Ravi Shankar |
2006-11 |
|
200. |
Shambo Nandy |
2013 |
|
201. |
Modhulika Bose |
2014 |
|
202. |
Manjula Baxla |
Batch of 2009 |
|
203. |
Monal Mukherjee |
|
|
204. |
Shatakratu Sahu |
2017 |
|
205. |
Abhinav |
2013 |
|
206. |
Ruth Chenchiah |
LL.B., 2009-2014 |
|
207. |
Esha Shekhar |
2007-2012 |
|
208. |
Shruti Jere |
2012 |
|
209. |
Gauri Subramanium |
2006 |
|
210. |
Dhananjay Mundari |
2007-2012 |
|
211. |
Sohini Mandal |
2006-2011 |
|
212. |
Tanvi |
2017 |
|
213. |
Kritika Vohra |
2016 |
|
214. |
Akshaya Venkataraman |
2017 |
|
215. |
Udit Misra |
2016 |
|
216. |
Arvind Abraham |
2017 |
|
217. |
Smriti Tipirneni |
2010 |
|
218. |
Soumik Das |
2009 |
|
219. |
Shubhojit Ghosh |
2008 |
|
220. |
Neha |
Batch of 2012 |
|
221. |
Vinayak Chawla |
2019 |
|
222. |
Deeya Ray |
2017 |
|
223. |
Diksha Sanyal |
2016 |
|
224. |
Abhimanyu Hazari |
2017 |
|
225. |
Shailja Singh |
2004 – 2009 |
|
226. |
Jigme Norbu Bhutia |
2016 |
|
227. |
Parika Singh |
2016 |
|
228. |
Batch of 2005 |
|
|
229. |
Roopali Adlakha |
2010-2015 |
|
230. |
Abin Francis |
2016 |
|
231. |
Rohan Sahai |
2006-2011 |
|
232. |
Ashish Kumar |
2008 |
|
233. |
Roochi Tripathy |
2006 |
|
234. |
Aastha |
2009 |
|
235. |
Gavish Malhotra |
2016 |
|
236. |
Ahaan Mohan |
2016 |
|
237. |
Aayush Rathi |
2017 |
|
238. |
Akash Mishra |
2017 |
|
239. |
Eshika Maji |
2017 |
|
240. |
Maathangi Hariharan |
2014-19 |
|
241. |
Naman Nanda |
2016 |
|
242. |
Tanaya Sanyal |
2015 |
|
243. |
Ramanuj Mukherjee |
2011 |
|
244. |
Sahana |
2016 |
|
245. |
Vishakha Gupta |
2017 |
|
246. |
Sanghamitra Roychowdhury |
2006 |
|
247. |
Dr. Sarfaraz Ahmed Khan |
2000-2002 |
|
248. |
Zeba Sikora |
2015 |
|
249. |
Amrita Chatterjee |
2010 |
|
250. |
Abhisaar Bairagi |
2011 |
|
251. |
Sudipta Bhattacharjee |
2005 |
|
252. |
Shruthee Srinivasan |
2015 |
|
253. |
Saarthak Biswas |
2019 |
|
254. |
Aakash Dasgupta |
2013 |
|
255. |
Prashant Sagar |
2014-2019 |
|
256. |
Shashwat Tewary |
2002 |
|
257. |
Nivedita Sen |
2013 |
|
258. |
Saloni Chaturvedi |
2006 |
|
259. |
Siddhartha Srivastava |
2016 |
|
260. |
Aatika |
2013-18 |
|
261. |
Padmini Subhashree |
2018 |
|
262. |
Namrata Mukherjee |
2016 |
|
263. |
Akshath Mithal |
2019 |
|
264. |
Archit Krishna |
2017 |
|
265. |
Adit Subramaniam Pujari |
2005-10 |
|
266. |
Saiyed Anzer Abbas |
2008-13 |
|
267. |
Sidharth Deb |
2016 |
|
268. |
Titus James |
2016 |
|
269. |
Souvik Roy |
2011 |
|
270. |
Indrajeet Sircar |
2013 |
|
271. |
Anuj Agrawal |
2009 |
|
272. |
Ayesha Khan |
2012 |
|
273. |
Kamaljeet Singh |
2011 |
|
274. |
Raghunath Seshadri |
2016 |
|
275. |
M.F. Philip |
2007-12 |
|
276. |
Ayesha |
2011 |
|
277. |
Rohit Raj |
2009 |
|
278. |
Siddharth Bagul |
2017 |
|
279. |
W. Bhutia |
|
|
280. |
Nakul Sahnan |
2019 |
|
281. |
Agnidipto Tarafder |
2008-13 |
|
282. |
Nivedita Udupa |
2016 |
|
283. |
Rohit Das |
2006 |
|
284. |
Nooreen Haider |
2017 |
|
285. |
Sakshi Agarwal |
|
|
286. |
Suchismita Barua |
2019 |
|
287. |
Debolina Saha |
2006 |
|
288. |
Shouryendu Ray |
2013 |
|
289. |
Kshitija Naik |
2018 |
|
290. |
Mriganka Shekhar Dutta |
2011 |
|
291. |
Maneka Khanna |
2015 |
|
292. |
Prakash |
2019 |
|
293. |
Adreeka Pandey |
2013 |
|
294. |
Bedavyasa Mohanty |
2015 |
|
295. |
Nikhil Iyer |
2019 |
|
296. |
Shrinidhi Rao |
2015 |
|
297. |
Kriti B |
2008-2013 |
|
298. |
Ananya Ramani |
|
|
299. |
Rimi Jain |
2013 |
|
300. |
Shivangi Mewal |
2011 |
|
301. |
Tanuj Kalia |
2013 |
|
302. |
Amrit Mahal |
2018 |
|
303. |
Annie Philip |
2004-09 |
|
304. |
Amoolya Narayan |
2006-11 |
|
305. |
Arpita Sarkar |
2007- 2012 |
|
306. |
Ashish Alexander |
2014 |
|
307. |
Abhimanyu Ghosh |
2002 |
|
308. |
Stella |
2013 |
|
309. |
Rhea Goyal |
2018 |
|
310. |
Pallavi Sharma |
2013 |
|
311. |
Jay Sanklecha |
2012 |
|
312. |
Deepro Guha |
2013 |
|
313. |
Anurag Naskar |
2017 |
|
314. |
Yamini Kumar |
2013-2018 |
|
315. |
Arpita Sengupta |
2017 |
|
316. |
George Varghese |
|
|
317. |
Karthik Vadapalli |
|
|
318. |
Rohan Banerjee |
2005-2010 |
|
319. |
Tanay Gandhi |
2017 |
|
320. |
Nityapriya S |
2007 – 2012 |
|
321. |
Aditya Raj Sharma |
2024 |
|
322. |
Shivam Bhardwaj |
2016 |
|
323. |
Adhip Kumar Ray |
2017 |
|
324. |
Shruthi Anand |
2017 |
|
325. |
Diptiman Mohapatra |
2017 |
|
326. |
Rayner Dkhar |
2019 |
|
327. |
Shashank Singh |
2017 |
|
328. |
Dev Vrat Arya |
2024 |
|
329. |
Meenakshi Kurpad |
2011-16 |
|
330. |
Akshay Sewlikar |
|
|
331. |
Shantanu Gupta |
2011 |
|
332. |
Amba Kak |
|
|
333. |
Rukmini Das |
2011 |
|
334. |
Manavi B H |
2009 |
|
335. |
Pranav Narain |
2013 |
|
336. |
Shravani P.T. |
2011 |
|
337. |
Deepak Raju |
2011 |
|
338. |
Rishabh Prasad |
2010 ( |
|
339. |
Akshay Malpani |
2018 |
|
340. |
Midhun Joseph Zacharia |
2014 |
|
341. |
Vijay Govind Nath |
2008 |
|
342. |
Nayana |
2018 |
|
343. |
Shivli Katyayan |
2002 |
|
344. |
Payoshi |
2015 |
|
345. |
Raveena Dhamija |
2014 |
|
346. |
Piyush Sharma |
2018 |
|
347. |
Bhavna Jha |
2008-13 |
|
348. |
Sayan Deb |
2018 |
|
349. |
Mayank Mikhail Mukherjee |
2006-2011 |
|
350. |
Shristi B |
2018 |
|
351. |
Arjun |
2010 |
|
352. |
Deepthi |
2016 |
|
353. |
Deepthi Gopalakrishna |
2002-2007 |
|
354. |
Mustafa Rasheed |
2014-2019 |
|
355. |
Siddharth Narsipur |
2016 |
|
356. |
Sweta Gope |
2016 |
|
357. |
Karthika Annamalai |
2017 |
|
358. |
Senu Nizar |
2019 |
|
359. |
Guncha Dhiman |
2019 |
|
360. |
Vivasvan Bansal |
2019 |
|
361. |
Surabhi Dhar |
2015 |
|
362. |
Rakshit Jha |
2017 |
|
363. |
Chaitanya |
2019 |
|
364. |
Arun Mal |
2013 |
|
365. |
Shailja Agarwal |
2018 |
|
366. |
Anshita Priyadarshini |
2014 |
|
367. |
Maithili Pai |
|
|
368. |
Ikshaku Bezbaroa |
2015 |
|
369. |
Nivedita Saksena |
2015 |
|
370. |
Ringicha Chakma |
2019 |
|
371. |
Upasana Chauhan |
2017 |
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372. |
Abhishek Verma |
2018 |
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373. |
Ramya Chandrasekhar |
Batch of 2018 |
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374. |
Dheeraj K |
2018 |
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375. |
Maitreya Subramaniam |
2018 |
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376. |
Akanksha Kaushik |
2009-2014 |
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377. |
Priyattama Bhanj |
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|
378. |
Pranav |
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|
379. |
Ujwala Uppaluri |
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|
380. |
Naman |
2013 |
|
381. |
Gauri Pillai |
2017 |
|
382. |
Ashish Goel, Advocate |
|
|
383. |
Abhinav Harlalka |
2013 |
|
384. |
Abhik Chakraborty |
2017 |
|
385. |
Ranjith Varghese |
2010 |
|
386. |
Sreya Das |
2013-2018 |
|
387. |
Tarunya Shankar |
2011-2016 |
|
388. |
Aisha Sharfi |
2012 |
|
389. |
Saloni Dukle |
2017 |
|
390. |
Ayushi Singhal |
2018 |
|
391. |
Aditya Alok |
2013 |
|
392. |
Debasmita |
2014 |
|
393. |
Reigha Yangzom |
2018 |
|
394. |
Aanchal |
|
|
395. |
Joydeep Halder |
2018 |
|
396. |
Mishail Khan |
2014 |
|
397. |
Swati Agrawal |
LLM (2015) |
|
398. |
Aanchal Basur |
2014 |
|
399. |
Jay Ganguly |
2008 |
|
400. |
Harjass Singh |
2013 |
|
401. |
Gayatri |
2016 |
|
402. |
Teslin Maria Augustine |
2012 |
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