According to DCP Southwest Manoj C, the situation was peaceful by 9:45 pm on the JNU campus. “Both the student parties are protesting peacefully. Appropriate legal action will be taken as per complaint,” he said.
According to DCP Southwest Manoj C, the situation was peaceful by 9:45 pm on the JNU campus. “Both the student parties are protesting peacefully. Appropriate legal action will be taken as per complaint,” he said.
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Multiple students were injured in Jawaharlal Nehru University after violence broke out on campus Sunday evening. This followed a tense day between two groups of students – Left activists and ABVP members – with the former alleging attempts to stop non-vegetarian food from being cooked and served in the Kaveri hostel mess and the latter alleging attempts to disrupt a Ram Navami puja in the same hostel.
Students said the violence broke out around 7:30 pm. While police said six students were injured, Left activists alleged the number was 50-60, while ABVP claimed it was 15-20, including 8-10 members of the outfit. Visuals emerged from the campus showing a student with a bloodied forehead, another with injuries on his back, and a third with a bleeding palm.
Tensions had begun simmering on the campus since around 4 pm. According to Left activists, it began with ABVP students allegedly trying to stop non-vegetarian food from being cooked in the hostel mess. “Every Sunday, both non-vegetarian and vegetarian food is cooked in all hostels. This is the usual practice. ABVP students were having some event near Kaveri hostel and when the vendor came to deliver chicken, they stopped him. They harassed and heckled both him and the mess secretary, saying that a havan is being held and non-vegetarian food can’t be cooked,” claimed Anagha Pradeep, councillor, JNU Students’ Union (JNUSU).
ABVP activists however claimed non-vegetarian food was not an issue. “Common students of JNU were conducting a Ram Navami havan in the Kaveri hostel but the Leftists wanted to bring discord and came to prevent it from happening and stop people from joining. It was supposed to start at 3:30 pm but could only start by 5 pm because of the ruckus. No one objected to non-vegetarian food, this controversy has been created as a cover… An iftar party and the havan were taking place simultaneously in the hostel with no issues,” claimed Umesh Ajmeera, secretary ABVP-JNU.
When The Indian Express spoke to Dean of Students Sudheer Pratap Singh at 7 pm, a little before the violence broke out, he had said: “The students’ mess committees decide what is to be cooked and the administration has no role in this. There was no formal complaint but I got a call and spoke to the warden and we had said let what has come be cooked, we have no issues. The issue has been resolved.”
In the meantime, the Kaveri hostel mess committee – a student-run body which determines the menu – wrote to the Dean of Students in the evening asking for intervention from the administration.
“Today, a group of people arbitrarily asked the meal manager not to cook non-veg (chicken) food for which he complied without informing the hostel and mess committee. The vendor who came to deliver chicken was verbally abused, threatened and manhandled. Students from outside of Kaveri hostel assaulted hostel committee members. The situation continues to be tense and we request immediate restoration of normalcy, which includes the pre-decided dinner menu of Kaveri hostel,” read their letter.
Source: https://indianexpress.com/article/cities/delhi/jnu-violence-students-injured-7862961/