JNU violence: Cops identify 9, including 7 Left students
The development comes even as the students and union education ministry authorities could not agree on a solution or on removal of JNU VCJNU students and teachers unions slammed the Delhi Police and blamed them of complicit with the 'forces who facilitated the brutal assault'
NEW DELHI : Delhi Police Friday identified nine suspects- seven of them left leaning students - for the first wave of violence inside the Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) last week but could not give details of the masked miscreants who carried out a brutal assault on students and teachers on Sunday evening.
But police said they are facing difficulty in identifying the masked and armed miscreants who ran amok on Sunday evening due to lack of CCTV footage and witnesses.
The development comes even as the students and union education ministry authorities could not agree on a solution or on removal of JNU VC to bring normalcy in the campus.
Deputy Commissioner of Police (crime branch) Joy Tirkey told reporters that Sunday saw two waves of violence and before the evening attack, the left union students did not allow students to go ahead with their semester registration and attacked some students and vandalised the server room. Other than the seven left union students including student union president Aishe Ghoshe, police said two are from the right wing Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad.
JNU students and teachers unions slammed the Delhi Police and blamed them of complicit with the “forces who facilitated the brutal assault".
“By showing our face police can not prove anything. We will not buzz an inch from our struggle. We want to see what proof they have of our involvement and we asking why they are not identifying the masked goons," Ghoshe said after a meeting with union education secretary Amit Khare. She however, said that the interaction with the HRD ministry has been constructive and hope to see that the ministry will remove the VC.
“Its not possible to trust the V-C and his favourite group of teachers. We want a new V-C and that is the only solution." said Danish Khan, joint secretary of the student union.
“...the incidents of mob violence on the evening of 5th January 2020, which included the attacks on teachers and their families, were almost glossed over (by police) as a non-event. Such underplaying of the incidents which shocked the nation and subjected several to extreme trauma is deeply disturbing," JNU teachers association said.
The teachers union said that till date “not even one of the several complaints filed by teachers has been turned into a FIR. Seen in combination with the attempts at the Delhi Police Press Conference to paint the student body which has been agitating against the fee hike for more than 75 days as an unruly mob, these only reinforce suspicions about the role of the Delhi Police on the fateful day". “Today’s press conference thus only highlights the significance of the JNUTA’s view of the need for an independent investigation that can also scrutinize the acts of commission and omission on the part of the Police as well as the JNU Administration", teachers union said.
At the HRD ministry, the talks between students and authorities could not reach any conclusion though the ministry said that the university will issue a fresh circular clarifying on some utility charges they had included as part of the hostel fee hike.
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