Hyderabad, Aug. 15 -- The Campaign Against State Repression (CASR) demanded the immediate release of Hindol Majumdar, a former student activist of Jadhavpur University, who was detained in Delhi Airport on August 13, for his alleged involvement in an attack on the convoy of West Bengal education minister Bratya Basu in March 2025.

CASR condemned the arrest which it said is part of a wider crackdown on all democratic and dissenting voices. The organisation said that the crackdown has intensified ever since the introduction of Surajkund Scheme in 2022, which claims to wipe off "naxalism of pen and gun".

In a statement to the media on Friday, August 15, the collective of around 40 student and civil society organisations urged all sections ...