Acting on the direction of the Pune court, the police have filed a case under the Atrocities Act against the Savitribai Phule Pune University (SPPU) vice chancellor and four others, including security officials.

The Chaturshringi police filed the case on Saturday night against Nitin Karmalkar, vice chancellor; Prafulla Pawar, registrar; Sanjay Chakane, Senate member; Suresh Bhosale, security director and Bhursingh Rajput, security guard. All were booked under relevant sections of the Indian Penal Code as well as the Scheduled Caste and Scheduled Tribe (Prevention of Atrocities) Act, 1989.