Scores thronged the Press Club of India on Wednesday, December 15. Most were students and journalists who had come to listen to author Arundhati Roy and other activists share their thoughts and mark the second anniversary of the police attack on Jamia Millia Islamia during the anti-CAA protests. The meet was crucial, one of the many that is being held to ensure that the memory of December 15, 2019, is kept alive.

On the panel besides Arundhati Roy, were activists Nodeep Kaur, Banojyotsna Lahiri, Farah Naqvi, Radhika Chitkara, Fawaz Shaheen, Farzana Yasmeen, student leaders Akhtarista Ansari and Anugya Jha. Speaker after speaker called out the government’s inaction, and demanded that the “police officials who ordered and conducted raids on the protesting students in Jamia as well as Aligarh Muslim University should be brought to justice”. 

Author Arundhati Roy compared Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) and National Register of Citizens (NRC) to Hitler’s Nuremberg law, and said “Jamia, AMU and JNU students were attacked because they stood up against these laws,” adding that the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) has taken over the national institutions.

What had happened that day at Jamia Millia Islamia University? 

Police virtually laid siege to the Jamia Millia Islamia University (JMIU) campus in New Delhi for several hours. It began in the afternoon when a group of students were holding marches and demonstrations against the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) in neighbourhoods such as Mathura Road, New Friends Colony, Jamia Nagar and Sarai Julena, located near the university campus. That’s when police allegedly cracked down on protesters who were at least hitherto protesting peacefully. Police allege that the protesters started pelting stones and also allegedly set on fire six buses and 50 other vehicles. The police then allegedly forcibly entered the university campus and unleashed brutality on unarmed students for hours.

Radhika Chitkara from the People’s Union for Democratic Rights (PUDR) recalled the fact finding report of the union, and alleged, “The police used excessive force with the aim to inflict maximum harm on the Jamia students and people living in the neighbouring areas.”

Fawaz Shaheen recalled the night of December 15 when police had stormed into the campus, and only gave them permission “when we told them that we need to get medical aid for students,” reported Clarion. Farah Naqvi stressed on the need to speak out, and the role of fact-finding reports and fearless journalism, saying that the reports were challenged in court by the Centre, but with that “they basically challenged the truth.”

According to the report, survivor Akhtarista Ansari, alleged that Jamia campus, was targeted because of its Muslim minority status, “They barged inside the campus and attacked students who were offering Namaz inside the masjid. The police used foul language against Muslim students.” Ansari added, “We should remember that Sharjeel Imam is in jail for coming up with the model that made farmers protest successful.”

Labour rights activist Nodeep Kaur called for support and solidarity among protest movements, while activist Banojyotsna Lahiri termed the attack on Jamia and AMU a “winter of despair” and the subsequent Shaheen Bagh sit-in a “spring of hope”.

Jamia Millia Islamia graded A++ by National Assessment and Accreditation Council  

Interestingly this meet was on a day when the news that Jamia Millia Islamia got an A++ rank in the National Assessment and Accreditation Council (NAAC) review, was also making the rounds. This is the highest rank given to an institution based on various parameters, including research, infrastructure, learning resources, evaluation, innovation and governance. A NAAC peer team reportedly conducted a review between December 6-8, 2021. 

All the students who were injured are moving on with their lives: VC

On the day that marked two years of violence against students by police personnel at Jamia Millia Islamia, Vice-Chancellor Najma Akhtar told the media that the grade was an “aggressive answer” that the university “had not lost that day”. She said “It is a day to remember for us but we are alive despite that, we have moved forward despite it. All the students who were injured are moving on with their lives. So we will not reduce our happiness… If we had become demoralised that day, we would have lost… This was an aggressive answer that we did not lose that day, and we will not lose in the future too.”

She added, “Agar koi nainsaafi humare saath hui thi to uska jawab hum de rahe hain… Ye ek sabhya samaaj ka jawab hai, aur asabhya hote to hum bhi jawab de sakte the (If there was any injustice done against us, this is our answer to it. This is the answer of civil society. If we were uncivil, we could have answered differently),”as quoted in the Indian Express. 

The Vice-Chancellor stated that, “This milestone for the university reflects the sheer hard work and untiring effort by all members of the university including the teachers, non-teaching staff, students and alumni. I personally extend my deep gratitude to all of them and hope that we will not only maintain this grading in the future but will also keep on working hard to improve our performance in academic, research and other areas.”

Akhtar said with the New Education Policy (NEP) coming in, the grade would “make a lot of difference in the confidence of the universities,” adding, “It’s not only Jamia which is going to be confident, it is also the other universities because they can see that if they work in the right direction… They will be able to achieve the best rank.”

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Any structure that exists with a clear mandate of placing absolute power in the hands of a few, will inevitably undermine the spirit of democracy at some juncture. From beating up of helpless migrant workers simply trying to go home, assaulting doctors and essential workers, to beating children, the police have shown us time and again they are not our friends (unless we are Members of Parliament whose children get birthday cakes from them).

?This child alleges that he was beaten up by UP’s Bareilly Police

?He sells fruits. He says, cops abused him & hit him with STICKS when his father was away for a bath

?I know so many cops whose children are studying abroad. And CM Adityanath, this is what a poor’s kid gets? pic.twitter.com/ZcGn9tIDsg

— Saahil Murli Menghani (@saahilmenghani) May 16, 2020

In December 2019, while analyzing the Jamia violence perpetrated by Delhi Police, I had asked the following question in a Hindi article: “जामिया के छात्रों से क्रूरता क्यों?” (“Who is the target of the Police’s Lathi? This is something we should think about”). Therapist and researcher- Sadaf Vidha answers, “The brutality of the police is meted out towards those most oppressed in the society. In this, it follows the same pattern of discrimination that the larger society follows. In India, we see disproportionate police brutality towards the poor, the migrants, the caste minorities, women, and the tribal population. In a bizarre incident, a lawyer in Madhya Pradesh was beaten brutally and told later, with an apology, ‘We thought you had a beard, so you were a Muslim’. When they have to make split-second decisions in the absence of proper training, with violence as the only method available, the decision is made on the bases of these implicit biases that they learned growing up and were later reinforced at various stages in their lives.” (extracts from researcher’s essay on thechakkar.com)

The indiscriminate and unjustified violence meted out by the police in Jamia Milia Islamia and Aligarh Muslim University students, as well as the violent measures taken to curb Anti-CAA protests may have fallen out of the news cycle, but they will never be forgotten.

6 months ago, today, police forcefully barged into the campus of Jamia Millia Islamia and Aligarh Muslim University. They shot at us, fired expired tear gas shells, brutalised students, used religion specific slurs, dragged kids out of hostels and beat them up.

— Shivangi ?️‍? (@shivangayy) June 15, 2020

Any citizen of India should be very concerned if, in the end, the police are not held accountable for their actions. An extremely biased report is already doing the job of whitewashing over the facts of Delhi Pogrom 2020. Similar gaslighting can be expected in the cases of police brutality. Whether they enter our places of education to perpetrate violence or overturn vegetable carts on the street, the police’s abuse of power with impunity needs to be questioned.

The Delhi Police, in particular, has also been perpetrating another form of structural violence by making a series of arrests targeting students, activists, and peaceful protestors including Safoora Zargar who has been denied bail yet again. The Judiciary is supposed to step up and protect the interests of the citizens. Instead, the Delhi High Court has repeatedly adjourned petitions seeking police accountability for indiscriminate arrests.

The Bengaluru police targeting veteran journalist Aakar Patel for posting about a peaceful #BlackLivesMatter protest is the latest in a long string of nationwide crackdowns on journalists and their freedom of speech. If we look at the big picture, the very people we rely on to keep us safe, are the source of fear. The Judiciary and the Government are complicit even in being passive. From the protests that helped us achieve our freedom from the hands of the British, to the online protests that we participate in now from our smartphones during the lockdown, it is our right, as citizens, to voice our criticisms of the law and order system in our country. Our ancestors put this free, independent nation in our hands, and we must nurture this freedom, we must build on it, we must never give it up in any manner. Jai Hind!

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Trying to save face, the Delhi police has used self-effacing words to justify their role on the raid that they conducted on the students of the Jamia Millia Islamia University (JMI) on December 15.

In the first chargesheet the police filed in court last week, it said, “In order to safeguard students and to identify the violent protestors and to keep them out of the campus, tear gas shells and moderate force was used to disperse and push back this assembly (sic).”

It adds, “Small component of police force also had entered into the campus and managed to vacate the campus off the unruly mob. During stone pelting and stampede, some students sustained injuries who were immediately sent to hospital for medical aid.”

The chargesheet has been filed under Sections 307 (attempt to murder), 147 (punishment for rioting), 148 (rioting, armed with a deadly weapon), 149 (unlawful assembly), 186 (obstructing public servant), 353 (assault or criminal force to deter public servant), 332 (voluntarily causing hurt to deter public servant) and 427 (mischief causing damage) of the Indian Penal Code.  

Also, the information in the first chargesheet suggests that the police haven’t found any actionable evidence against any student of JMI. Three JMI students have been named in the chargesheet but haven’t been arrested yet.

The chargesheet names a total of 18 people, 17 from the neighbourhood and the remaining 18^th person being Sharjeel Imam who the police has described as an “instigator” based on the statement of a witness who was allegedly provoked by Sharjeel’s speeches. Sharjeel is also facing charges of sedition in another matter.

In a bid to justify the police excesses, the chargesheet also stated, “Different groups entered the campus and started pelting stones on the police force from three sides. The police kept on warning the protesters to disperse peacefully but they were adamant and kept on pelting stones from inside the campus. The same is visible on CCTV and media photos.”

Hinting at their altruism they wrote, “The rioting mob was repeatedly warned that stone-pelting endangers the life and property of students inside and all demonstrators should vacate the campus peacefully.”

The police is set to file a supplementary chargesheet. The first chargesheet reads, “Further investigation is proceeding. The role of the leaders, including student leaders who instigated, is being established. Supplementary chargesheet will be filed.”

While the police had kept mum about its role in the violence on the fated day, things blew over after the Jamia Coordination Committee released a video showing the police entering the library and indiscriminately beating up the students. Two videos were released subsequently by the police in which it said it could be seen that the students had stones in their hands. However, the police has maintained its stand saying that the video showing them charging students does not prove the innocence of those present in the library at the time.

Mohammed Minhajuddin and Mohammed Mustafa were grievously injured during the assault by the police. Minhajuddin lost an eye to the police excesses that had taken place that day. Mustafa was mercilessly beaten; both his hands were severely fractured and his body was covered in bruises.

The National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) had met with the students who were part of the police excesses that fateful night. Shayaan Mujeeb whose legs were injured in the violence has demanded a Rs. 2 crore compensation for his treatment and future medical expenses.

On Wednesday, more than 90 students and staff members filed a petition in the Supreme Court seeking an independent intervention in the matter. They did so against an interim order of the Delhi High Court where it refused to direct the police to register FIRs against the police personnel who entered the JMI campus on December 15, 2019.

Their petition reads, “All the 93 complaints made to the police are lying with Delhi police, who are refusing to register FIR/FIRs.” They have called the ongoing investigation of the Delhi HC “biased” stating that it is only based on the FIR filed by the police on the students.

The Delhi police claims it had entered the campus to “safeguard” students. But how can the statements of the students be disregarded in this case, especially when there is video evidence of the brutality? Also, how can it justify its action by claiming that there were suspected rioters in the campus? Without following protocol, the police fired tear gas shells and charged students with batons without isolating the alleged rioters. How can they not be held culpable for this?

While the police is trying to portray itself to be holier-than-thou and trying to deny even the presence of evidence, will the Court take matters into its hands and grant justice to the wronged?

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On Monday, February 17, the Delhi High Court (HC) issued notices to the Centre and the Delhi Police on a petition filed by a student of the Jamia Millia Islamia University seeking a compensation of Rs. 2 crore for injuries he sustained during the December 15, 2019 violence at the university, The Quint reported.

Shayaan Mujeeb, the petitioner, allegedly sustained injuries on both his legs due to the reported police brutalities in the Jamia library and said that he had spent Rs. 2 lakh on his treatment. He said that due to the attack, a metal rod had to be inserted in his right leg. In his petition he asked for interim compensation of Rs. 25 lakhs and a reimbursement of all related future medical expenses. To support his claim, he submitted MLCs, discharge summaries and photographs that demonstrated the severity of his injuries.

A bench of Chief Justice DN Patel and Justice Hari Shankar asked the Central government and the Delhi Police to file in their responses by May 27.

Nabila Hasan, counsel appearing for Mujeeb said that the brutalities on him by the Delhi police had caused fractures in both his legs and would leave him limping throughout his life. The Centre, however, denied the claim to which Mujeeb’s counsel retorted saying that there was CCTV footage for the violence that happened in the library that day.

Videos of police violence on the students of Jamia are currently doing the rounds. The Jamia Coordination Committee released a video showing police charging students with lathis, which police claim to be ‘edited’.

Post the first video, the Delhi Police released new CCTV footage showing students purportedly entering the Old Reading Hall in the MA/MPhil Department of the university and carrying stones in their hands. In the footage, the students can be seen barricading the door shut with tables.

However, the sequence of events in a video by Maktoob Media show the extended footage of the video the police used to show ‘rioters’ had entered the library. This video shows that when helpless and unarmed students tried to exit the library police beat them up brutally.

@DelhiPolice and @IndiaToday came out with a video that shows student ‘rioters’ entering #Jamia library after clip shows police action on students. Video was cut off before footage shows how police enter room and attack them.

Watch the extended footage: https://t.co/M7Xzl15r9z

— Maktoob (@MaktoobMedia) February 17, 2020

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Day after the Jamia Coordination Committee tweeted a video of security personnel entering the first floor reading hall of the MA/MPhil section of the Jamia Milia Islamia University on the night of December 15, 2019, and brutally beating students, police appear to have gone into damage control mode. In a desperate bid to reclaim control over the narrative and perhaps even offer a shameless justification of violence, police have now released their own video of what transpired in the library.

This new video shows alleged ‘rioters’ entering the library with stones in their hands. The video was accessed by India Today from the Delhi Police Crime Branch. Police claim that the people in the video are ‘rioters’ who took refuge in the library to escape the police crackdown. The video may be viewed here:

What happened in #Jamia on December 15? India Today accesses the #exclusive video. @arvindojha’s report.
LIVE https://t.co/4fqxBVUizL pic.twitter.com/qrsTsFuDw3

— India Today (@IndiaToday) February 16, 2020

A few young men can be seen in the video entering a room, one after the other. One of them, a long-haired young man, appears to be holding something in his hand that the police claim is a stone. There are about 10 to 15 people in the video who immediately barricade the door to the library using a desk.

This new video comes just a day after the Jamia Coordination Committee released the following video:

Exclusive CCTV Footage of Police Brutality in Old Reading Hall, First floor-M.A/M.Phill Section on
15/12/2019
Shame on you @DelhiPolice @ndtvindia @ttindia @tehseenp @RanaAyyub @Mdzeeshanayyub @ReallySwara @ANI @CNN @ReutersIndia @AltNews @BBCHindi @the_hindu @TheQuint @BDUTT pic.twitter.com/q2Z9Xq7lxv

— Jamia Coordination Committee (@Jamia_JCC) February 15, 2020

This video clearly shows security personnel repeatedly beating students who are sitting quietly and studying. Police personnel can be seen raining lathi blows on these students, who do not engage in any counter attack, but meekly try to defend themselves by holding up their hands to avoid blows to the head. 

But just when the Delhi Police thought it had won the video war, another longer video of the CCTV footage emerged. Maktoob Media released the following extended footage of the same CCTV camera that the police had used to show ‘rioters’ had entered the library. This video shows that when helpless and unarmed students tried to exit the library police beat them up brutally. The version released by the police had cleverly omitted this extended part of the footage. The video may be viewed here:

The counter strategy applied by the police of releasing one video to invalidate another, appears to have backfired. When they tried to defend their actions, the new video clearly shows there is no justification for the violence against students.

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Jamia students have been widely speaking about thus traumatic experience but, to date, no statutory body, has initiated any independent probe.

Just two months after the alleged police brutality inside Jamia campus, another CCTV footage has emerged showing policemen beating up students.

On December 15, a protest against the contentious Citizenship (Amendment) Act (CAA) turned violent after protesters allegedly pelted stones at the police and set public buses on fire. While there were serious allegations that the police entered the college library and beat up the students, who weren’t protesting, no FIR has, to date been registered, nor a probe ordered.

On Saturday, February 15, another such video was released by the Jamia students. The 44-second video showed policemen wearing anti-riot gear, entering the library. There were around 10-20 students inside as cops thrashed the students with batons and pushed them outside the hall.

While sharing the video clipping on the micro blogging site, Twitter,   the Jamia Coordination Committee has claimed that the incident took place on the first floor of MA, MPhil section inside Old Reading Hall on December 15. The tweet also said, “Shame on you Delhi Police.”

Sabrangindia has also learned of a huge destruction of library books and manuscripts during the police assault bit authorities refuse to confirm this.

Exclusive CCTV Footage of Police Brutality in Old Reading Hall, First floor-M.A/M.Phill Section on
15/12/2019
Shame on you @DelhiPolice @ndtvindia @ttindia @tehseenp @RanaAyyub @Mdzeeshanayyub @ReallySwara @ANI @CNN @ReutersIndia @AltNews @BBCHindi @the_hindu @TheQuint @BDUTT pic.twitter.com/q2Z9Xq7lxv

— Jamia Coordination Committee (@Jamia_JCC) February 15, 2020

Jamia authorities confirmed that the video was from inside the library but haven’t released an official statement yet.

RP Meena, DCP (south-east) is reported by The Indian Express to have said,  “The case is being probed by the crime branch. We will check whether the video is with them and also the authentication of the video. We can comment once the video is checked.”

Special Commissioner (Crime) Praveer Ranjan assured that the police will investigate the latest video. “We have taken cognizance of the latest video (of December 15) of Jamia Millia Islamia University which has surfaced now, we will investigate it,” Ranjan told reporters.

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The students of CEPT University in Ahmedabad had called for an emergency protest to condemn the brutality of the Delhi Police on the students of the Jamia Millia Islamia University (JMI) and its inaction in the case of the incident of sexual assault at the Gargi College.

The protest was held at Sabarmati Ashram on February 12 from 5 – 7 PM. According to a participant, the protest started as scheduled, but the police dispersed the protestors 20 minutes later. The crowd then moved to protest at Nataraj Cinemas, near HK College of Arts, Ashram Road.

The police asked the peaceful protestors who were holding placards, to move away and stop their protest.

CAA-NRC-NPR Protest/Gujarat/Ahmedabad

Plan for 11.02.2020: Emergency Protest pic.twitter.com/dui296vzc0

— Vishwas Bhamburkar (@bvishwas) February 11, 2020

Here, at the ashram, a cop is seen trying 2 shut a protester up, trying 2 snatch his phone.
But the cop is stumped in the end, watch#caa_nrc_protests #jamia_violence #gargicollege #delhipolicemurdabad #shameondelhipolice
.@thepeeinghuman @teresaabraggs @avanirai pic.twitter.com/UuxgJtNa8z

— Ashutosh Gudi (@ashthe_great) February 11, 2020

Allegedly, more than 10 women students were hit on their private parts and were found to have blunt trauma injuries the doctors said of the police attack on the students at JMI. Some students also suffered internal injuries as they had reportedly been hit on the chest with lathis, India Today reported.

At the all-girls Gargi College which was holding an annual fest, the students faced an onslaught of drunk men even with a heavy presence of police and security persons. The students were groped and molested and witnessed a display of sexual behaviour from the men who were not college students as affirmed by the students. The Principal, Promila Kumar denied having any knowledge of such an incident taking place in the college.

The current atmosphere in the wake of the anti-CAA-NPR_NRC protests has shown the brutality of not just the Delhi Police, but also the Uttar Pradesh police with regards to brutalities on women. Women protestors have been beaten up by the police – both male and female officials, several times and still continue to be attacked.

The complete nonchalance of the Delhi Police with regards to handling the incident at Gargi College just goes to show the complacency with regards to women’s safety in colleges. The police have not taken any accountability for their action and inaction and continue to either be passive observers, be it in the case of the Jamia shootout or puppets in the hands of the Central government.

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Over 30 students of Jamia Millia Islamia University (JMI) have been allegedly injured in a clash with the Delhi police after they were stopped from carrying on an anti-Citizenship Amendment Act march towards the Parliament on Monday. 

Led by the Jamia Coordination Committeed (JCC), a group of JMI students and alumni had planned to march from Gate no. 7 to the Parliament against the CAA and National Register of Citizens (NRC). 

Reportedly, the police had urged the students to restrict the them to the University as the permission to march to the Parliament had been rejected. 

JMI Chief Proctor Waseem Ahmed had also requested the students to move back. He had said, “I request both students and police to deal with the situation in a calm manner. I appeal to students to move back.”

JMI students started their march towards parliament..@Jamia_JCC @jamiamillia_

(Half an hour ago).
Via – @khannishat pic.twitter.com/EmMAyC0yUE

— Shaheen Bagh Official (@ShaheenBagh_) February 10, 2020

Students of Jamia Millia Islamia along with local people of Okhla leading a march to Parliament against the Citizenship Amendment Act, 2019 and nationwide NRC-NPR.#IndiaAgainstCAA #CAA_NRCProtests pic.twitter.com/lYkEg3eX2M

— We The People of India (@ThePeopleOfIN) February 10, 2020

Police deployment at Jamia Millia Islamia to stop us from marching towards Parliament and probably lathi charging, throwing grenades& tear gas and detaining students. pic.twitter.com/5j2VxHSt6h

— Shahbaz شاہباز (@shahbaz_jmi) February 10, 2020

Delhi: Jamia Coordination Committee’s (JCC) protest march against CAA, NRC, & NPR, from Jamia to Parliament, stopped by security forces near Holy Family Hospital in Okhla. pic.twitter.com/McBArSRDOy

— ANI (@ANI) February 10, 2020

Police lathicharge Jamia Millia students to disperse the crowd, students were stopped at Holy Family Hospital while they were marching to the parliament #JamiaMilliaIslamia pic.twitter.com/7WMiQEQYxl

— Newsd (@GetNewsd) February 10, 2020

Just In: Brutality of Police on @jamiamillia_ Students!#Shameless_Police pic.twitter.com/J8qcAOdV95

— The Alig’s Portal® (@thealigsportal) February 10, 2020

#Delhi
The people injured today during the march the police is trying their level best to hurt us and to dismiss the march and PROTESTING people.

Pc @travelwithdanis pic.twitter.com/tiFlxHfS07

— CAA / NRC Protest Info. (@NrcProtest) February 10, 2020

The police have allegedly attacked some women taking part in the protest who were being protected by men who formed a human chain around them as they marched ahead. According to reports, the exact number of injured students is unknown. The situation is reported to be under control now, injured students have been taken to the hospital and the rest have stopped at Julena. 

This is the second report of police brutality on the students of Jamia after December 15, 2019. On January 30, an armed man opened fire at the students of JMI injuring one. 

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A group of men, reportedly supporting the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) and National Register of Citizens (NRC) wielding the tricolor and shouting slogans of “Desh ke gaddaron ko, goli maaro saalon ko” and “Jai Shri Ram” allegedly gathered near the Jamia Millia Islamia University today, the University said on Twitter.

#SOSJamia : Hindutva goons have entered @jamiamillia_ campus and chanting “goli maaron saalon ko” right in front of @DelhiPolice .

We urge people to gather at gate no 7 in large numbers.

Delhi Police role till today has been suspicious in handling the situation at Jamia.

— Jamia Millia Islamia (@jamiamillia_) February 4, 2020

इनके पीछे कौन है जो हौसला बढ़ा रहा है !!
आज ये लोग जामिया पर आ गए कल जामिया में घुस कर जेएनयू जैसा आतंक भी मचा सकते हैं!!@tabrej_saan @ndtv @Mdzeeshanayyub @ShashiTharoor @anubhavsinha @kanhaiyakumar pic.twitter.com/WcFo5yeO1t

— Jamia Coordination Committee (@Jamia_JCC) February 4, 2020

After repeated attacks on Jamia, RW goons have again entered the premises chanting “goli maaro saalon ko”.

Has the RAF been deployed here to control these mobs or to intimidate students?

Home Minister @AmitShah should explain why goons are being unleashed on us everyday.

— Jamia Millia Islamia (@jamiamillia_) February 4, 2020

VIDEO-This happened mins ago at barricades before the #JamiaMilliaIslamia Sports Complex

Men chanting provocative “Goli Maaron ***** ko” planned to march straight into Jamia protests

But police finally pushed them back, a heated face-off between them & students was avoided. pic.twitter.com/JISJWGmq9Z

— Zeba Warsi (@Zebaism) February 4, 2020

According to National Herald, the men came from the Sukhdev Vihar area and stopped at the barricade near Gate No. 1 where the main protest against the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) is being held. Hafeez Azmi, a JMI student said, “They were there for more than 10 minutes, chanting ‘Jai Shri Ram’ and shouting ‘goli maro….’ The police were standing right there.”

In its statement on Twitter, the JMI said, “We urge people to gather at gate no. 7 in large numbers. Delhi Police’s role till today has been suspicious in handling the situation at Jamia.”

It has been reported that the police personnel present at the spot subsequently asked the group of men to disperse and took them towards Sukhdev Vihar. There are no details of which group the men are affiliated to. India Today reported that the police had detained around 40 men at Kalkaji and said that the CAA-NRC supporters had come there from Sonepat, Haryana.

The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) ministers Anurag Thakur and Kapil Mishra, and party affiliates have been resorting to constant provocation through this slogan, calling people to ‘shoot the traitors’ (protestors of CAA). Last week, an armed man shouting the slogan ‘Yeh lo azaadi’ opened fire at the protestors near the University injuring one student.

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On Thursday afternoon, a gunman whose identity cannot be revealed as he is a minor, opened fire on a group of protesters near Jamia Milia Islamia University (JMIU). The group of people, including JMIU students, who were protesting the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) and demanding a return to Gandhian values of peace, inclusion and tolerance, were planning to march from the university to Raj Ghat when the incident occurred.

Shockingly, the events unfolded in front of the police and security personnel deployed on the spot as well as in full view of media persons who had gathered to cover the march. The young man reportedly said, “Kisko chahiye azaadi, yeh lo azaadi,” (Who wants freedom? Here’s your freedom!) before he fired his gun. One young man identified as Shadaab was injured in the firing. His hand was covered in blood when he was rushed to the hospital. A video of the incident went viral on social media.

This incident comes just days after BJP’s Anurag Thakur encouraged people attending an election rally in Delhi to shoot traitors. He chanted “desh ke gaddaron ko…” to which the crowd responded with “goli maaro s****n ko” (Gun down traitors to the nation). Another man brandishing a gun had recently entered the site of the sit-in protest at Shaheen Bagh in Delhi. A vast majority of the protesters at Shaheen Bagh are women and there were also many children present at the venue. Luckily people were able to overpower the gunman at Shaheen Bagh and confiscate his weapon before he got a chance to fire it.

At the site of today’s incident though, the police and security personnel made no attempt to stop the gunman. An eyewitness told NDTV, “We were standing near the barricades when suddenly this outsider, whom none of us recognised, tried to disturb the peace of the march. He marches forward with a revolver in his hand. We were all trying to stop him and calm him down. The policemen were standing there. We tried to approach them to stop that guy. But they just kept standing there simply. When we tried to take the revolver from his hand, he shot one of our friends.” 

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