Bengaluru student at NEET protest assaulted for demanding PM Modi resign

However, the FIR does not mention any organisational affiliation, and the police have not attributed a motive to the attack.

The student, Aman Deep Singh, told the police that he was returning home after dinner around 10.30 pm on July 28 in Jalahalli when four masked men on two two-wheelers intercepted him.

According to the FIR registered at the Jalahalli Police Station on July 29, the assailants first confirmed his identity by asking whether he was “Aman Deep Singh of AISA”. One of them then allegedly asked if he wanted PM Modi’s resignation and struck him on his right leg with a wooden object. The attackers then fled the spot.

‘Henchmen of RSS-BJP’

AISA alleged the attackers targeted the student for participating in a protest demanding Union Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan’s resignation.

In a press statement issued Thursday, AISA alleged that the attackers threatened the student and said, “You dare to demand the resignation of Modi” before assaulting him. The organisation claimed the student suffered a serious leg injury that required a plaster.

“This attack was a direct response to the student’s participation in questioning the brutalities of the current Indian state… Although the protests at Jantar Mantar began with NEET, they soon evolved into a broader platform to speak about the active destruction of democracy done by the BJP government,” AISA said in its statement.

“The ABVP has repeatedly functioned as the henchmen of the RSS-BJP regime in suppressing dissent across the country. University campuses have increasingly witnessed acts of intimidation and violence carried out with apparent impunity. The vandalism and attacks on students at Azim Premji University is one such example of this broader pattern,” it added.

‘Opportunistic timing’

In a statement issued Friday, ABVP said it had no involvement in the incident and claimed that the FIR registered at Jalahalli Police Station on July 28, 2026, was filed against unidentified persons and did not mention any organisational or political affiliation.

“It is noteworthy that AISA remained completely inactive for two days following the registration of the FIR, choosing to issue statements only after ABVP successfully mobilised a large-scale demonstration addressing critical irregularities within the Karnataka Public Service Commission (KPSC). This opportunistic timing reveals a clear attempt by an otherwise invisible entity to leverage ABVP’s prominent public standing for media visibility and ideological propaganda,” it said.

“While ABVP continues to lead constructive efforts on the ground to safeguard the rights and interests of the student community, AISA’s sensationalist claims serve only to mislead the public and incite unnecessary tension among students,” it added.

The police registered a case against unidentified persons on charges of voluntarily causing hurt, wrongful restraint, intentional insult to provoke a breach of peace, and acting with a common intention under the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita.