TIL Desk/National/New Delhi/ Unrest over the police crackdown in Delhi’s Jamia Millia Islamia rippled through the country on Monday with demonstrations in several campuses, including in Hyderabad, Lucknow, Mumbai and Kolkata The morning after violence broke out in the national capital following protests over the Citizenship Amendment Act, hundreds of students took to the streets demanding a probe into the usage of teargas inside the Jamia library as well as police entering the campus without permission from the varsity authorities.
Several Delhi University students boycotted exams to express their solidarity. They said they will gather at India Gate on Monday evening. At ground zero of the student movement, a group of Jamia students stood shirtless in the bone-chilling cold of a Delhi morning to protest the action against their colleagues on Sunday. Slogans of “inquilab zindabad” were heard about 10 students, accompanied by their fellow colleagues, took out a small march, demanding a CBI inquiry into the “police brutality”
Two cases have been registered in connection with violence at Jamia Millia Islamia and adjoining areas on Sunday following protests against the amended Citizenship Act, according to Delhi Police. The university had turned into a battlefield on Sunday as police entered the campus and also used force, following protest against the Act. “One case has been registered at Jamia Nagar Police Station and another case registered at New Friends Colony Police Station,” a senior police official said.
