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New Delhi: The Supreme Court today said that no coercive action can be taken against student protesters without criminal antecedents who were involved in the recent youth movement against the education system’s failings, that led to the resignation of education minister Dharmendra Pradhan, ordering the immediate release of all students held by police in various places.

A bench of Chief Justice of India Surya Kant, Justice Joymalya Bagchi and Justice V. Mohana, while hearing petitions against police brutality on participants in the protests led by the Cockroach Janata Party in Delhi’s Jantar Mantar and various other states, said that there was also a need for a fair and independent probe into the allegations of injuries. It also included claims that police had........

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