Delhi Police has filed a first information report (FIR) against Jawaharlal Nehru University Students’ Union president Aishe Ghosh along with 19 others for allegedly vandalising the university server room on January 4, it was reported by NDTV. According to the report, police filed a single FIR that clubbed together “multiple complaints”.
The FIR is relating to an incident in which the JNU administration had alleged that students demanding rollback of fee hike in JNU hostel had “ransacked” a computer server room and “intimidated” staff to prevent students from going ahead with the semester registration process. The said FIRs were filed on January 3 and 4, before Ghosh and other students were attacked with iron rods inside the campus.
On Sunday evening, January 5, goons entered Delhi’s JNU covering their faced and went on a rampage in which 22 students and teachers were injured. A shocking video shows goons with lathis and iron rods, their faces covered, vandalising the campus.
Aishe Ghosh was injured in the attack. She was profusely bleeding from the head and said she had been attacked by goons and hit with iron rods. She was rushed to AIIMS trauma care centre, where she had 14 to 15 stitches on the head. On Monday, she held a press conference at JNU where she alleged she had informed police prior to the attack that there were outsiders inside the campus, but police took no action. The JNUSU said that the Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad (ABVP), the students’ wing of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) was behind the attack. But Nidhi Tripathi of ABVP and others from the organisation alleged that “Communist goons” had created the trouble in the campus.
During Sunday’s attack, at least 32 people were injured, that includes students and teachers (Sucharita Sen, among others).
Nobel laureate Abhijit Vinayak Banerjee on Monday urged the Narendra Modi government “to establish the truth of what happened” at JNU saying “any Indian who cares about the nation’s image in the world should worry. “This has too many echoes of the years when Germany was moving towards Nazi rule,” he said. He added that he was very concerned about the injured and wished them speedy recovery.
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