JNU union leaders amongst 6 college students ‘certain down’ after Delhi police station march turns violent | Watch

The Delhi Police formally booked and “certain down” six college students from Jawaharlal Nehru College (JNU), together with three college students’ union office-bearers, on Monday, a day after a scuffle broke out between college students and officers.

A protest march in the direction of the Vasant Kunj (North) police station resulted in a confrontation between the scholars and the police, with a number of accidents reported.

These positioned underneath the authorized bond embrace the Jawaharlal Nehru College College students’ Union (JNUSU) president, Nitish Kumar, Vice-President Manisha, Common Secretary Munteha Fatima, and college students Manikant Patel, Briti Kar, and Saurya Majumdar.

A senior police officer stated that being ‘certain down’ means the people are legally obliged to look earlier than the investigating officer upon summons and should notify the police in the event that they plan to depart town.

The police stated {that a} First Info Report (FIR) had been registered towards them on the Vasant Kunj (North) Police Station.

Twenty-eight different college students have been held underneath Part 65 of the Delhi Police Act however have been subsequently launched following a medical examination.

In accordance with the police, six police personnel have been injured when college students purportedly smashed by means of barricades and blocked visitors on Nelson Mandela Marg.

The protest march, organised by Left-leaning teams together with AISA and SFI, was held to demand that an FIR be filed towards members of the Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad (ABVP). The scholars have accused the RSS-backed organisation of assaulting Left-affiliated college students throughout a latest normal physique assembly held on the campus.

Scholar organisations have alleged that the police resorted to a ‘brutal assault’ as a way to disperse the group.

JNU academics’ physique condemns police brutality towards college students

In the meantime, the JNU Academics’ Affiliation condemned the police motion, labelling it ‘disproportionate and politically motivated’.

It additionally raised issues over the detention of feminine college students after 7 pm and strongly urged the administration to uphold the college’s custom of democratic scholar politics.

The police, nonetheless, denied the claims, asserting that their actions have been important to take care of public order and forestall the scenario from escalating.

In a joint assertion, JNUTA President Surajit Mazumdar and Secretary Meenakshi Sundriyal stated: “Movies and different reviews point out the usage of brutal power, leaving a number of college students severely injured. What’s of extraordinarily critical concern shouldn’t be solely that girls college students have been amongst these assaulted, but additionally that they have been detained after 7 PM.”

The police gave the impression to be “motivated by goals apart from the upkeep of regulation and order” mentioning {that a} peaceable march questioning police conduct was not tolerated, the assertion stated.

“Such a failure of the Delhi Police was additionally witnessed simply a few days in the past in a Delhi College faculty when a trainer was assaulted of their presence. In JNU itself, the Delhi Police was neither capable of forestall the dance of violence indulged in by masked hoodlums on 5 January 2020, nor has it managed to hint or establish a single considered one of them within the virtually six years which have since handed. It had additionally proved to be an abysmal failure find our scholar, Najeeb, who has been lacking for years,” the assertion learn.