Police Action On Jnu Students

Talks are being held to persuade students to take back the call for the screening on their own, sources said, adding that there will be heavy police deployment for security reasons and action will be taken if students gather for the screening.

A court New Delhi has sought action taken report (ATR) from Delhi Police on a plea filed by a JNU professor seeking registration of FIR in a case related to attack on students and teachers in the varsity campus on January 5.

Aishe Ghosh, the chief of JNU Students' Union, said she is confident that there can be no police action against her on basis of the two First Information Reports against her, since she has not been involved in any violence. The police, she said, would not take action without any evidence.

Union Minister Amit Shah spoke to Delhi Police Commissioner Amulya Patnaik on Sunday, after a mob of masked goons barged into the Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) campus and attacked students and teachers. The home ministry, in a tweet, said the officer has been instructed to take "necessary action".

JNU on Tuesday approached the Delhi High Court seeking contempt action against its students and the Delhi Police for allegedly violating a court order against holding a protest within 100 metres of the university's administrative block.

Opposition members in Lok Sabha on Tuesday described the alleged baton-charge by police on JNU students demanding total rollback of hostel fee hike as "suppression of voice".

Rajya Sabha proceedings on Tuesday were adjourned till 2 pm after opposition uproar over alleged police action on protesting JNU students in the national capital and detention of political leaders in Jammu and Kashmir.

JNU Student Protest: CPI(M) general secretary Sitaram Yechury on Monday condemned the police action on protesting students of the Jawaharlal Nehru University, saying it was not the right way to deal with democratic protests.

The CPI(M) Politburo on Tuesday condemned the police action against JNU students who were protesting against the recently announced hike in hostel fees and said the fee increase was to ensure that the university becomes "elitist".

The government appeared to speak in two voices over Wednesday's violent clashes in Delhi's Ramjas College. While union education minister Prakash Javadekar said he would not interfere in the row as the college is autonomous, his cabinet colleague junior home minister Kiren Rijiju said colleges cannot be allowed to become "hub of anti-national activ...

Terming the violence outside Ramjas College in New Delhi as an example of "state machinery-backed violent intolerance", the CPM on Thursday demanded action against Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad (ABVP) activists involved in the assault and also against the police for connivance.

Jawaharlal Nehru University students on Monday continued their protest demanding action into the mysterious disappearance of Najeeb Ahmed, a first-year student at the university who has been missing for 17 days.

Delhi's prestigious Jawaharlal Nehru University witnessed an uproar around midnight as the police got called in to as hundreds of students held protests inside, demanding action regarding a student who went missing four days ago. The police waited inside the campus as the protests continued past midnight.

Three student leaders from the BJP-affiliated student organisation Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad or ABVP's Jawaharlal Nehru University chapter have reportedly resigned from their posts citing the police action on the university's campus on February 11 and Hyderabad University Research Scholar Rohith Vemula's suicide.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi's constituency, Varanasi, is preparing for a likely storm when he visits on February 22. The student unrest fuelled by the suicide of Hyderabad university scholar Rohith Vemula and the police's action on JNU students in New Delhi is threatening to disrupt the visit.

Talks are being held to persuade students to take back the call for the screening on their own, sources said, adding that there will be heavy police deployment for security reasons and action will be taken if students gather for the screening.

A court New Delhi has sought action taken report (ATR) from Delhi Police on a plea filed by a JNU professor seeking registration of FIR in a case related to attack on students and teachers in the varsity campus on January 5.

Aishe Ghosh, the chief of JNU Students' Union, said she is confident that there can be no police action against her on basis of the two First Information Reports against her, since she has not been involved in any violence. The police, she said, would not take action without any evidence.

Union Minister Amit Shah spoke to Delhi Police Commissioner Amulya Patnaik on Sunday, after a mob of masked goons barged into the Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) campus and attacked students and teachers. The home ministry, in a tweet, said the officer has been instructed to take "necessary action".

JNU on Tuesday approached the Delhi High Court seeking contempt action against its students and the Delhi Police for allegedly violating a court order against holding a protest within 100 metres of the university's administrative block.

Opposition members in Lok Sabha on Tuesday described the alleged baton-charge by police on JNU students demanding total rollback of hostel fee hike as "suppression of voice".

Rajya Sabha proceedings on Tuesday were adjourned till 2 pm after opposition uproar over alleged police action on protesting JNU students in the national capital and detention of political leaders in Jammu and Kashmir.

JNU Student Protest: CPI(M) general secretary Sitaram Yechury on Monday condemned the police action on protesting students of the Jawaharlal Nehru University, saying it was not the right way to deal with democratic protests.

The CPI(M) Politburo on Tuesday condemned the police action against JNU students who were protesting against the recently announced hike in hostel fees and said the fee increase was to ensure that the university becomes "elitist".

The government appeared to speak in two voices over Wednesday's violent clashes in Delhi's Ramjas College. While union education minister Prakash Javadekar said he would not interfere in the row as the college is autonomous, his cabinet colleague junior home minister Kiren Rijiju said colleges cannot be allowed to become "hub of anti-national activ...

Terming the violence outside Ramjas College in New Delhi as an example of "state machinery-backed violent intolerance", the CPM on Thursday demanded action against Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad (ABVP) activists involved in the assault and also against the police for connivance.

Jawaharlal Nehru University students on Monday continued their protest demanding action into the mysterious disappearance of Najeeb Ahmed, a first-year student at the university who has been missing for 17 days.

Delhi's prestigious Jawaharlal Nehru University witnessed an uproar around midnight as the police got called in to as hundreds of students held protests inside, demanding action regarding a student who went missing four days ago. The police waited inside the campus as the protests continued past midnight.

Three student leaders from the BJP-affiliated student organisation Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad or ABVP's Jawaharlal Nehru University chapter have reportedly resigned from their posts citing the police action on the university's campus on February 11 and Hyderabad University Research Scholar Rohith Vemula's suicide.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi's constituency, Varanasi, is preparing for a likely storm when he visits on February 22. The student unrest fuelled by the suicide of Hyderabad university scholar Rohith Vemula and the police's action on JNU students in New Delhi is threatening to disrupt the visit.