Jamia Protests

The Delhi High Court on Tuesday held that the December 2019 protests organised at Delhi's Jamia Millia Islamia was an unlawful assembly and the mob gathered at the spot with the intention to violate the law.

The student community is not a different group which enjoys any extra right regarding freedom of speech and expression and the law does not grant protection if the right to protest is demonstrated violently, the Delhi High Court said.

Hearing petitions alleging police atrocities on students inside the Jamia Millia Islamia (JMI) University here following anti-CAA protests in December 2019, the Delhi High Court on Monday said excessive use of force cannot be justified.

A Delhi court judge, who recently discharged student activists Sharjeel Imam and Asif Iqbal Tanha, along with nine others in the 2019 Jamia Nagar violence case, has recused himself from hearing a similar matter, citing "personal reasons".

Jamia Millia Islamia postgraduate students staged a protest in front of the office of the university's proctor demanding that exams should be conducted online.

The mosque is located at Nowhatta in downtown Srinagar, it used to be a site of stone-pelting and clashes between police and protesters. The protests and stone-pelting incidents have effectively stopped in the last three years.

"Jamia has been closed for more than two years and students from all over the country have been demanding its reopening ever since the DDMA (Delhi Disaster Management Authority) guidelines to reopen all schools and colleges were released in the first week of February," the outfits said.

Padma Awards 2022: Professor Akhtar was appointed as the Vice-Chancellor in April 2019, the same year which saw protests against the Citizenship Amendment Act in December.

Delhi High Court asked Delhi Police to place before it the latest position of cases relating to incidents of violence in Jamia Millia Islamia University in December 2019 which had occurred in relation to student protests against the Citizenship Act.

JNU student Sharjeel Imam, arrested for allegedly making inflammatory speeches during the protests against the CAA and the NRC, on Monday told a Delhi court that his prosecution is a "whip of a monarch rather than a government established by law".

A Haryana court on Friday rejected the bail plea of a 19-year-old man arrested this week for allegedly making hate speeches at a gathering attended by a BJP leader.

A 19-year-old man who had shot at anti-CAA protesters at Delhi's Jamia Millia Islamia university last year was arrested by the Haryana Police on Monday for allegedly making communal speeches in Pataudi.

Around 40 people have been arrested for protesting inside Srinagar's Jamia Masjid last week. Fifteenof them will be charged under the Public Safety Act or PSA, police said. A person can be jailed for six months, under the stringent law, or extended period without a trial.

A court on Wednesday dismissed an application filed by Jamia Millia Islamia University seeking a case against Delhi police officials for allegedly breaking into the campus without its permission and assaulting students and security guards during anti-Citizenship Amendment Act protests in December 2019.

A Delhi court on Saturday took cognisance of the offence of sedition against JNU student Sharjeel Imam in a case related to the violence during protests against the Citizenship Amendment Act in December last year, which resulted in damage to public property and injuries to police near Jamia Millia Islamia.

The Delhi High Court on Tuesday held that the December 2019 protests organised at Delhi's Jamia Millia Islamia was an unlawful assembly and the mob gathered at the spot with the intention to violate the law.

The student community is not a different group which enjoys any extra right regarding freedom of speech and expression and the law does not grant protection if the right to protest is demonstrated violently, the Delhi High Court said.

Hearing petitions alleging police atrocities on students inside the Jamia Millia Islamia (JMI) University here following anti-CAA protests in December 2019, the Delhi High Court on Monday said excessive use of force cannot be justified.

A Delhi court judge, who recently discharged student activists Sharjeel Imam and Asif Iqbal Tanha, along with nine others in the 2019 Jamia Nagar violence case, has recused himself from hearing a similar matter, citing "personal reasons".

Jamia Millia Islamia postgraduate students staged a protest in front of the office of the university's proctor demanding that exams should be conducted online.

The mosque is located at Nowhatta in downtown Srinagar, it used to be a site of stone-pelting and clashes between police and protesters. The protests and stone-pelting incidents have effectively stopped in the last three years.

"Jamia has been closed for more than two years and students from all over the country have been demanding its reopening ever since the DDMA (Delhi Disaster Management Authority) guidelines to reopen all schools and colleges were released in the first week of February," the outfits said.

Padma Awards 2022: Professor Akhtar was appointed as the Vice-Chancellor in April 2019, the same year which saw protests against the Citizenship Amendment Act in December.

Delhi High Court asked Delhi Police to place before it the latest position of cases relating to incidents of violence in Jamia Millia Islamia University in December 2019 which had occurred in relation to student protests against the Citizenship Act.

JNU student Sharjeel Imam, arrested for allegedly making inflammatory speeches during the protests against the CAA and the NRC, on Monday told a Delhi court that his prosecution is a "whip of a monarch rather than a government established by law".

A Haryana court on Friday rejected the bail plea of a 19-year-old man arrested this week for allegedly making hate speeches at a gathering attended by a BJP leader.

A 19-year-old man who had shot at anti-CAA protesters at Delhi's Jamia Millia Islamia university last year was arrested by the Haryana Police on Monday for allegedly making communal speeches in Pataudi.

Around 40 people have been arrested for protesting inside Srinagar's Jamia Masjid last week. Fifteenof them will be charged under the Public Safety Act or PSA, police said. A person can be jailed for six months, under the stringent law, or extended period without a trial.

A court on Wednesday dismissed an application filed by Jamia Millia Islamia University seeking a case against Delhi police officials for allegedly breaking into the campus without its permission and assaulting students and security guards during anti-Citizenship Amendment Act protests in December 2019.

A Delhi court on Saturday took cognisance of the offence of sedition against JNU student Sharjeel Imam in a case related to the violence during protests against the Citizenship Amendment Act in December last year, which resulted in damage to public property and injuries to police near Jamia Millia Islamia.