New Delhi: Police have filed a first information report after members of Hindutva organisations who stormed Pune's Film and Television Institute of India over a banner put up against the 1992 Babri Masjid demolition.

The Wire had reported that the incident took place on Tuesday, January 23, a day after the Ram temple was inaugurated in Ayodhya at the site where the Babri Masjid stood until it was demolished by kar sevaks over 30 years ago.

A banner on the FTII campus – an image of which was shared multiple times on social media – says, "Remember Babri, death to constitution, FTII Students' Association."

The report noted that the banner was set on fire by the members of Hindutva outfits. Indian Express reported that members also allegedly asked students why they were "anti-national."

According to the press note issued by the Students Association after the incident, the association’s president Mankap Nokwoham was “violently attacked and brutally beaten” by the Hindutva goons. His T-shirt was torn in the assault and he sustained multiple severe bruises, the statement claimed.

Riot-control vans and quick response teams were deployed.

“Our information also suggests that screening of a film and an exhibition of photos related to the history of the Babri Masjid-Ram Janmabhoomi issue was also organised on the campus,” a Deccan Gymkhana police station cop told Express.

Documentary filmmaker Anand Patwardhan's film Ram Ke Naam has been screened at various places at this time.

Based on a FTII security officer's complaint, a First Information Report (FIR) was registered against 12 to 15 persons who had entered the campus.

Hindutva workers have also alleged they were assaulted by the students. Among groups whose members went to FTII was the Samastha Hindu Bandhav.

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