Protests demanding education minister Dharmendra Pradhan's resignation over exam paper leaks in New Delhi have intensified, with students staging peaceful marches and sit-ins in recent days. Demonstrations at Jantar Mantar and other sites have been met by police action, and multiple public interest litigations have been filed in the Delhi High Court alleging use of tear gas, baton charges and widespread physical abuse of protestors.

Petitioners say the police response was not isolated but a deliberate suppression by forces under the Home Ministry, and social media circulated videos purportedly show tear gas and officers in plain clothes assaulting demonstrators. Authorities have filed ten FIRs against unidentified individuals connected to the protests; journalists report Prime Minister Narendra Modi later ordered a fast-track court for those implicated in the paper leak scandal.

The protests continue with students pressing for accountability over the exam leak and broader reforms to an education system they say excludes many; courts will now consider the allegations of police misconduct in pending petitions.