NEET protests: SC sets up 5-member panel to probe excessive use of force by cops

NEET protests: SC sets up 5-member panel to probe excessive use of force by cops on students Edited by: Rohitashwa Ranjan / TIMESOFINDIA.COM / Aug 20, 2026, 16:45 IST Comments Share AA Text Size Small Medium Large NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court on Thursday constituted a 5-member High-Powered Enquiry Committee to examine the allegations of excessive use of force by police, and paramilitary force on students during July 20 Sansad Chalo march organised by Cockroach Janata Party.The committee will be headed by former Supreme Court judge Justice R. Subhash Reddy. The other members are former Punjab and Haryana high court Chief Justice Ravi Shankar Jha, former Delhi high court judge Justice Shalinder Kaur, former CBI director Rishi Kumar Shukla and retired Meghalaya Director General of Police Dr LR Bishnoi. The committee will examine allegations of excessive use of pellet guns, electric batons, lathi charges and tear gas, along with alleged violence against women protesters.It will also look into police surveillance, the proportionality of crowd-control measures, and the provision of medical assistance and compensation to victims. The committee will also consider allegations by authorities of violence against police personnel and damage to public property. Rohitashwa Ranjan is a digital journalist with The Times of India, where he decodes Indian politics as a carefully staged production with scripts, subtext and everything behind. His stories track elections, party dynamics and the things that often are buried beneath the headlines. When not parsing vote shares or alliances, he is usually reading between the lines, where the real story tends to reside.