Severe protests at Ramjas College continued on Thursday as clashes between the Akhil Bhartiya Vidyarthi Parishad and the All India Students Association took a violent turn. The clashes had started on Tuesday when the ABVP had protested against the presence of JNU’s Umar Khalid at Ramjas College campus at a conference about “Cultures of Protest”. Khalid had been invited to speak at the conference, which had been organised by the Department of English at Ramjas College.
#WATCH AISA protest against ABVP and Delhi Police outside PHQ, raise ‘Atyaachar se Azadi, ABVP se Azadi’ slogans #Ramjas pic.twitter.com/AwxpZMZbIL
— ANI (@ANI_news) February 23, 2017
04:03 PM: Ramjas case update: Case to be transferred to crime branch.
03:50 PM: Delhi Police to invite public notice soon allowing students to submit their complainsts to police. Evidence to be attached to FIR: S B K Singh
ABVP attacks protestors at #RamjasCollege.A member of our editorial collective,@SouradeepRoy19, who was filming this,was also attacked pic.twitter.com/QSRpOQWfwj
— Indian Writers Forum (@IWF_Writers) February 22, 2017
03:48 PM: The police are maintaining that this is excessive and not permissible under law.
03:47 PM: Students want alleged victims of Wednesday to file separate FIRs against every single ABVP ember and other policemen involved in violence
03:35 PM: It’s regrettable that journalists were beaten, those students will be identified &suspended: SBK Singh,Special CP
#RamjasCollege Few policemen’s unprofessional actions noticed; enquiry on; strict actions will be taken: Dependra Pathak (Joint CP) #Ramjas
— DU Updates (@duupdateshere) February 23, 2017