New Delhi: Days after the police crackdown on Jamia Millia Islamia students, the Jawaharlal Nehru University Students have been targetted by masked goons who entered the premises with iron rods and attacked the protesting students.
Despite images, videos surfaced on the internet, the Delhi police have booked JNUSU President Aishe Ghosh and 19 others for allegedly vandalizing the server room and attacking the security guards in the JNU campus on Saturday, IBT reports.
JNUSU President Ghosh who was found in blood-soaked face with bandage has been alleged to have played a key role in the violence in JNU, which took place on Sunday.
The Delhi police booked her under Sections 341, 323, 506 of the Indian Penal Code (IPC) and various sections of the Prevention of Damage to Public property Act, 1984.
Apart from her, Saket Moon, Satish Yadav, Sarika Chaudhury, among others, are named in the FIR.
The cops registered four FIRs in JNU violence that shook the national capital on Sunday.
The Delhi Police stated that one of the FIRs was registered on January 4 after the JNU administration filed a complaint regarding obstruction in the registration process.
The students had to register for next semester admission which was allegedly blocked by some students. The second and third FIRs were registered regarding scuffle and obstruction in the registration process on January 4.
And the fourth FIR, according to reports, was registered on January 6 for arson against unidentified and identified people for their alleged role in JNU violence that took place on Sunday.
The Police took suo motu cognisance of the violent incident and registered the fourth FIR at Vasant Kunj police station.
Inspector Anand Yadav in the fourth FIR stated: “The students had been protesting in the campus for last few days over fee hike and other issues inside the university premises and as per the Delhi High Court direction of not allowing any student to carry out protest within the radius of 100 meters of administrative Blocks, police had been deployed permanently over there.”
Reacting to the development, poet and lyricist Javed Akhtar mocked the Delhi Police, tweeting “how dare she stop a nationalist iron rod with her head”.
“The FIR against the president of JNUSU is totally understandable. How dare she stop a nationalist, desh Premi iron rod with her head. These anti nationals don’t even let our poor goons swing a lathi properly. They always put their bodies there. I know they love to get hurt (sic),” Akhtar wrote on Twitter.
According to the FIR, the police were informed at 3.34 pm that some students have indulged in violence and were damaging public properties outside the Periyar Hostel at JNU.
“We rushed to the spot and found that 40 to 50 unidentified people, few of them covering faces with handkerchiefs and masks, and carrying sticks and rod were beating up other students inside and outside the hostel,” the FIR read.
“As soon we reached, these unidentified people fled from the spot,” Inspector Anand Yadav said.
“We requested the students to maintain peace and not to indulge in any violence,” he added.
“At 7 pm, we came to know that around 40 to 50 unidentified people entered into the Sabarmati Hostel and started beating up students and damaging properties,” the FIR stated further.
“We made announcement to maintain peace and not to indulge in violence and immediately leave the premises. The hooligans continued damaging the properties but as we pressed in, they fled from the spot,” the officer said.