CAA Protests: Police attack on JMI students ignites protests across India

New Delhi: Police entered the Jamia Millia Islamia campus last evening, blocked the university gates and attacked the non-protesting students.

Violence erupted in south Delhi during a protest against the amended Citizenship Act, police decided to nab some "outsiders" who had entered the premises to hide, according to sources.

Almost in minutes, videos of police lighting up buses themselves, firing tear gas shells in libraries and attacking students in the campus who had nothing to do with the protests emerged. Many students claimed that they were heavily injured with fractures.

As many as 50 students were detained during protests at the Jamia Millia Islamia University, They have been released even as protests and demonstrations over the against the Citizenship (Amendment) Act spilt over to universities across the nation. Over 100 people, including students and cops, were injured after police lobbed teargas shells inside the campus. Videos of police throwing teargas shells inside the campus, including Jamia library and students bleeding in the university bathrooms emerged seen on social media, Delhi Police refuted reports of any casualty during the clashes.

"Students don't have the right to riot", said CJI Bobde said about the ongoing protests. "Just because they happen to be students, it doesn't mean they can take law and order in their hands, this has to be decided when things cool down. This is not the frame of mind when we can decide anything. Let the rioting stop," he added.

The Delhi unit of Congress will stage a protest outside the police headquarters against police action at Jamia university.

The students of Mumbai TISS have decided to boycott classes and fieldwork on Monday. Maulana Azad National Urdu University (MANUU) students' union in Hyderabad has written to the controller of examination of university, stating that, "due to protests by MANUU students against police's attack on Jamia and AMU students, MANUU students are boycotting exams, request you to postpone the same." After Jamia, violent protests erupted at the Aligarh Muslim University as hundreds of students clashed with the police at a campus gate after which police used batons and teargas to disperse them. Internet services have been suspended in Aligarh. All schools in southeast Delhi area will be closed on Monday in view of the situation that emerged after violence near the Jamia university, Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia announced.