New Delhi: The Delhi Police on Friday released pictures of nine suspects in the JNU violence case and claimed JNUSU president Aishe Ghosh was one of them.
Of the nine, seven belong to left-leaning student organisations while two are affiliated to right-wing students’ body, the police said.
Addressing a press conference, DCP (Crime Branch) Joy Tirkey, who is probing the case, said a majority of the students wanted to register for the winter semester from January 1 to 5, but the left-leaning students’ bodies were not allowing them to do so.
About the attack on January 5, the DCP said that specific rooms in the university’s Periyar hostel were targeted. Several people including Aishe Ghosh attacked students in the hostel, the police officer claimed.
Ghosh, who was injured in the attack, however, refuted the charge saying the Delhi Police should make public whatever proof it has against her.
ABVP takes out march
RSS-affiliate ABVP on Friday took out a march inside the JNU campus against the January 5 incident.
The protesters carried banners which read ‘Red Terror down down’ and ‘Reclaim our study’. They started their march from Sabarmati T-point and moved towards the varsity’s main gate. As they walked, police in plain clothes also accompanied them.
Students form human chain to protest against Jan 5 violence
JNU students on Friday formed a human chain at the varsity to protest against the January 5 violence on the campus.
Carrying banners of ‘Fees must fall’ and ‘In defence of public funded higher education’, they formed the chain at the Sabarmati T-point. (PTI)