Ayesha Khan detained by Mumbai Police during CJP protest

Actor Ayesha Khan was detained by the Mumbai Police on Tuesday while attending a protest held in solidarity with NEET aspirants, demanding accountability for examination irregularities and justice for students who died by suicide. Sharing videos on social media, the actor alleged that she had been standing peacefully on the road when the police took her into custody. Ayesha rose to popularity after featuring in the Dhurandhar song Shararat.

In a series of videos posted on her Instagram Stories, Ayesha appeared visibly shaken as she described the incident. "My hands are literally shivering right now. I've been detained in the police van just for standing on the road peacefully. I didn't say a word. I didn't even start the protest. I was just standing because my brother, my male friends were detained and we were just standing on road. Me and two of my other female friends," she said.

In another video, Ayesha was heard asking police officials where they were taking those who had been detained.

In a separate clip, she requested officers not to push her as she was being escorted.

The protest in Mumbai was organised in support of the student-led demonstrations in Delhi over irregularities in the NEET examination. Similar protests have been held in several cities over the



past few days.

In a longer video recorded from Worli Police Station, Ayesha said she had reached the protest venue around 4 pm to show solidarity with NEET aspirants and students who had died by suicide. She alleged that the group had not even begun protesting when police intervened. According to the actor, they had neither raised slogans nor displayed placards and were simply standing on the roadside after some of her friends and her brother were taken into a police van.

Ayesha said that around 15 police personnel, including women officers, surrounded her and two of her female friends and asked them to get into the police van. "I kept asking why we were being detained. We were just standing on the road. We hadn't even started protesting. Nobody answered us," she said.

The actor further claimed that she and her friends were forcibly taken to Worli Police Station. While she said the officers at the police station spoke to them politely, she questioned the actions of the personnel at the protest site. Ayesha alleged that she and her friends were pushed while being detained and asked what law they had violated. She also claimed that they were only three people standing together and questioned why they were detained when, according to her, the restrictions being cited had not yet come into effect.