'THE INVESTIGATION into violence during protests against the Citizenship (Amendment) Act (CAA) at New Friends Colony on December 15 has revealed that three bullets were fired by two police personnel in front of an ACP-rank officer— contrary to Delhi Police claims that not a single bullet was fired by them during the clashes. This finds a mention in a “case diary” prepared by officers of the Southeast district police, The Indian Express has learnt...'
'The Delhi police is now using Automated Facial Recognition System (AFRS), a software it acquired in March 2018, to screen alleged “rabble-rousers and miscreants”. This includes those who have been protesting against the Citizenship (Amendment) Act (CAA) and National Register of Citizens (NRC). According to a report in the Indian Express, Narendra Modi’s Ramlila Maidan event on December 22 was the first political event where this software was used to screen the crowd.
'On 19 December, the Delhi High Court heard six petitions demanding a probe into the Delhi Police’s violent response to the protests by the student community of Jamia Millia Islamia against the Citizenship Amendment Act, 2019. According to numerous accounts, on 15 December, the police forcibly entered the university campus and teargassed its library and brutally beat students. That night, the police attack left at least two dozen students injured. The police detained fifty students as well, according to one of the petitions in the Delhi High Court.
'The Indian Medical Association (IMA) issued a statement on Sunday condemning police action inside hospitals, calling it “a new low in the civic life of the nation”. The IMA is a national voluntary organisation of Indian doctors. It’s the same body whose president, Santanu Sen, had written to the editor of the influential medical journal The Lancet, condemning the latter’s denouncement of government action in Kashmir.
'“Wild baton blows”, “communal slurs”, “dragged out of the campus with hands raised up”… This was all Abdul Rehman could mutter when asked about the violence unleashed upon him by the men in uniform. With his left arm nearly broken now, Abdul, a B Tech student in Jamia, was one of the students who were detained here on Sunday evening. He was studying in the university’s library when the Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) personnel along with the police entered the space, “vandalised” it and picked him up and others.
'...While the exact timeline is not yet clear, it seems the Delhi Police entered the university campus at around 5.30 pm. Every student that Scroll.in spoke to asserted that the police action was totally unprovoked. When the students were attacked, they said they started retaliating with stones. By 7 pm, the police had spread out through the entire campus. Hundreds of policemen seemed to have been involved in the operation. According to one student, even people who were not participating in the protest were beaten up.
'...“We were all peacefully standing outside,” said Avilasha, a psychology student. “After our examinations got over, we were standing over here and talking. The police were also silently standing. Suddenly, the police started pushing people, police officers held us and started manhandling us. There was a girl who was kicked in her stomach. Every now and then, the police came in groups, dragging people outside the gate. We don’t know where they have been taken.” Saurabh, a law student who participated in the protest, said members of the ABVP approached them at about noon.
'Delhi Police used tear gas on students of Jamia Millia Islamia who were taking out a march in protest of the Citizenship Act from the university campus to the parliament.'
'On November 11, thousands of students of Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) held a protest march against the massive hostel fee hike and other anti-student policies of the administration. The protesting students were marching to the All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE) auditorium where the convocation ceremony for the university’s outgoing students was taking place when they were brutally attacked by the police, in an attempt to stop them from reaching the auditorium.
'An exclusive India Today operation today unearthed shocking details on the assault on JNUSU President Kanhaiya Kumar and journalists, while Kumar was being produced in the Patiala House court on February 15. In a sting operation recorded by our cameras, lawyers in Delhi's Patiala House court have owned up to the brazen assault. In the video below, they admit gleefully that Kanhaiya was beaten up even when he was in police custody. None of these lawyers have been arrested...'
