The court issued notice to the Centre and the UGC in the matter, and reinstated earlier regulations that the UGC had issued in 2012. In Uttar Pradesh, upper caste students carried out marches , tonsured their heads and tied black bands on their hands. “If the upper caste students are not participating in caste discrimination, why are they scared of the regulations?” he said. Now I’ve seen absolutely everything: the petitions challenging the UGC regulations have compared the upper castes to the criminal/denotified tribes. “No states in the south, west or east had any such protests.”Meanwhile, students say caste discrimination is still common on campuses.