India, July 10 -- Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) chief Mayawati and Aazad Samaj Party (Kanshi Ram) president Chandrashekhar Azad on Friday publicly sparred over the protests following the murder of a college student from a Scheduled Caste in Meerut, with the two leaders advocating contrasting approaches to securing justice for Dalits.

The exchange came even as the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC), acting on a complaint over the police response to the protests, issued notices to the Uttar Pradesh home secretary and director general of police, seeking a report within 15 days, according to news agency PTI.

Addressing a press conference in Lucknow, Mayawati urged Dalits and other marginalised sections to fight injustice through "constitut...