A brawl broke out between two teams of scholars on the Jawaharlal Nehru College (JNU) campus on Thursday, Dussehra, through the ‘Visarjan Shobha Yatra’.
JNUSU President Nitish Kumar mentioned that earlier within the day a poster about Ravan Dahan – depicting jailed college students Umar Khalid and Sharjeel Imam, who’re at the moment underneath trial – as Ravan, had been circulated. College students from different teams had been protesting towards the identical, on the Sabarmati T-Level of the varsity, when ABVP’s Durga Visarjan procession erupted into chaos.
‘Violent assaults,’ ‘slippers’ waved
The ABVP mentioned Left teams, together with the AISA, SFI and DSF, “violently attacked” the immersion procession close to the Sabarmati T-Level round 7 pm, claiming that a number of female and male college students have been injured in stone-pelting and abused, reported information wire PTI, citing an announcement by the celebration.
In the meantime, JNUSU President Nitish Kumar mentioned that the ABVP group stopped their DJ on the tea level for half an hour and raised slogans of “Jai Sri Ram” and “Yogi ji’s bulldozer justice there” after which they began “waving slippers.”
The Left-affiliated All India College students’ Affiliation (AISA) additionally rejected ABVP’s expenses and as an alternative, accused the celebration of “utilizing faith for political propaganda”.
What are the fees towards Umar Khalid, Sharjeel Imam?
Umar Khalid, Sharjeel Imam and a number of other others have been charged underneath the UAPA together with sections of the previous Indian Penal Code for allegedly being “masterminds” of the 2020 Delhi riots, which resulted in 53 deaths and over 700 accidents.
The violence broke out amid protests towards the Citizenship (Modification) Act (CAA) and the Nationwide Register of Residents (NRC).
Final week, the Supreme Court docket issued a discover to Delhi Police in search of their response to the bail pleas of Khalid, Imam and others.
The accused, who’ve denied all expenses, have been imprisoned since 2020 and appealed to the excessive court docket after a trial court docket denied their bail requests.
