<p class="title">Police today denied permission to a summit scheduled to be addressed by Dalit leader Jignesh Mevani and JNU student leader Umar Khalid and detained students gathered outside a hall here for the event.</p>.<p class="bodytext">A police official said the number of students and activists detained outside the Bhaidas Hall in suburban Vile Parle was not yet available.</p>.<p class="bodytext">The action came after police denied permission for the 'All India Students Summit 2018', which was scheduled to be held today, in which Mevani and Khalid were invited.</p>.<p class="bodytext">The police denied permission in the wake of protests and bandh in the state yesterday following violence on the anniversary of a battle fought 200 years ago at Bhima Koregaon in Pune, a senior police official said.</p>.<p class="bodytext">The police has not given permission for the programme, Datta Daghe, the president of Chhatra Bharati, the organiser of the event, told PTI.</p>.<p class="bodytext">"Despite this we plan to go ahead with the programme. Mevani, Khalid and other invitees are coming after 11 am," he said.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Daghe said there was a huge police presence at the hall and the students were not being allowed to go inside.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Pune Police had earlier said that they had received a complaint against Gujarat MLA and Dalit leader Mevani and Delhi's Jawaharlal Nehru University's (JNU) student leader Khalid for their "provocative" speeches at an event in Pune on December 31.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Mevani and Khalid had attended the "Elgar Parishad", an event organised to commemorate the 200th anniversary of the battle of Bhima-Koregaon, at Shaniwar Wada in Pune.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Violence erupted in Pune district when Dalit groups were celebrating the bicentenary of the Bhima-Koregaon battle in which the forces of the British East India Company defeated the Peshwa's Army.</p>
<p class="title">Police today denied permission to a summit scheduled to be addressed by Dalit leader Jignesh Mevani and JNU student leader Umar Khalid and detained students gathered outside a hall here for the event.</p>.<p class="bodytext">A police official said the number of students and activists detained outside the Bhaidas Hall in suburban Vile Parle was not yet available.</p>.<p class="bodytext">The action came after police denied permission for the 'All India Students Summit 2018', which was scheduled to be held today, in which Mevani and Khalid were invited.</p>.<p class="bodytext">The police denied permission in the wake of protests and bandh in the state yesterday following violence on the anniversary of a battle fought 200 years ago at Bhima Koregaon in Pune, a senior police official said.</p>.<p class="bodytext">The police has not given permission for the programme, Datta Daghe, the president of Chhatra Bharati, the organiser of the event, told PTI.</p>.<p class="bodytext">"Despite this we plan to go ahead with the programme. Mevani, Khalid and other invitees are coming after 11 am," he said.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Daghe said there was a huge police presence at the hall and the students were not being allowed to go inside.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Pune Police had earlier said that they had received a complaint against Gujarat MLA and Dalit leader Mevani and Delhi's Jawaharlal Nehru University's (JNU) student leader Khalid for their "provocative" speeches at an event in Pune on December 31.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Mevani and Khalid had attended the "Elgar Parishad", an event organised to commemorate the 200th anniversary of the battle of Bhima-Koregaon, at Shaniwar Wada in Pune.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Violence erupted in Pune district when Dalit groups were celebrating the bicentenary of the Bhima-Koregaon battle in which the forces of the British East India Company defeated the Peshwa's Army.</p>