In 2015, when Delhi's universities reopened after the summer break, Jamia Millia Islamia issued a notice stating that the female students of the college could no longer request permission to stay out later than 8 pm.
[citation needed] They decided to circulate a petition[2] to extend the discourse sparked by the Jamia incident, questioning the exclusive and exclusionary treatment that they believe applies in university spaces.
[9] The movement has garnered momentum across the country,[10] with students from several colleges, such as NIT Calicut, IIT-Roorkee, Punjabi University, RMNLU Lucknow,[11] using the Pinjra Tod to challenge patriarchal policies women face in their campuses.
[13] Reacting to a claim by Smriti Irani, the Minister of Human Resource Development who had said "women in India are not told what to wear, whom to meet and where to go",[14] on 24 October 2015, Pinjra Tod called for a protest at her ministry offices.
[15] On 16 December 2015, Pinjra Tod organised a multi-city protest called Bus Teri Meri, Chal Saheli,[16] three years after the 2012 Delhi gang rape.
On 2 May 2016, the UGC published in The Gazette of India, a letter regarding Prevention, Prohibition, and Redressal of Sexual Harassment of Women Employees and Students in Higher Educational Institutions.
[24] In September 2015, within weeks of the movement's inception, there was wall art and graffiti painted across North Campus, Delhi University, featuring Pinjra Tod's name and pictures of birds escaping from cages.
[25] On 21 September 2015, two Pinjra Tod activists claimed to have received a phone call from a man who said he was a student of Satyawati College and a member of Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad (ABVP).
[4][26][27] A year later, Pinjra Tod campaigners organised a "graffiti drive" at Ambedkar University that protested a wide range of social matters, not all related to women and/or their hostels.
[28] On 23 September 2016, Pinjra Tod had organised a night march and vigil in North Campus to end sexist diktats and discriminatory hostel rules, which was allegedly disrupted by ABVP activists.