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Annexure 4 PHYSICAL ATTACKS on STUDENTS and FACULTY Annexure 4 PHYSICAL ATTACKS ON STUDENTS AND FACULTY Physical Attacks on Faculty S. Date University Name of Nature of Source No /college Faculty or Action beating, . Event harassment, threat 1. Aug, Madhav H S Sabarwal Professor died a https://www.hi 2006 College, day after being ndustantimes.c Ujjain assaulted by 25- om/india/chron 30 ABVP ology-of- students angry sabharwal- at cancellation case/story- of student union icL8BUnvHM poll. Three m1IW44d7Mi3 years later all N.html the students https://www.hi were acquitted. ndustantimes.c Madhya om/india/all- Pradesh state is accused-in- run by the BJP. prof- sabharwal- murder-case- acquitted/story- oLVQovj6zQC 5t8czTZa5AO. html 2. Nov, DU S A R Geelani ABVP member http://twocircle 2008 spat on him at a s.net/2008nov0 seminar on 9/students_teac Communalism, hers_condemn_ Fascism and abvp_activists_ Democracy: vandalism_du. Rhetoric and html Reality 3. Mar, BRM Sunder Singh Dies after https://www.in 2011 Agricultur Thakur witnessing diatoday.in/indi e College, members of a/north/story/w MP ABVP beating a b-prof-dies-of- fellow teacher. shock-seeing- The teacher who fellow- was beaten had member- been charge of beaten-by- sexual abvp-130271- harassment by 2011-03-13 ABVP. No official complaint registered 4. Mar, Khandawa Ashok Prof thrashed https://www.nd 2011 , MP Chaudhary ABVP alleged tv.com/india- that he sexually news/bjp- exploited youth-workers- students and thrash- thrashed him. professor-with- sandals-449482 5. Aug, Dharwad M Kalburgi Shot dead by https://www.bb 2015 Suspected right c.com/news/wo wing Hindu rld-asia-india- extremists 34105187 6. Feb, Lucknow Rajesh Kumar Effigy burnt, https://indianex 2016 Univ attacked by press.com/artic ABVP le/india/india- Shared article of news-india/jnu- a DU prof on agitation- FB, on the lucknow- subject of JNU university- students being professor- attacked shares-piece- on-umar- khalid-abvp- burns-effigy- blocks-class/ 7. Aug, MGCU, Sanjay Kumar Beaten up by https://www.hi 2018 Motihari RSS fronts for ndustantimes.c Facebook post om/india- against A B news/bihar- Vajpayee professor- beaten-up- after-sharing- facebook-post- critical-of-ab- vajpayee/story- YdOJ04WNB wvqzpFiHUpY mI.html 8. Sep, Prof. Gov PG Threatened. https://thelogic Dinesh Studies, alindian.com/n 2018 Gupta Mandsaur, The ABVP was ews/abvp- MP sloganeering professor- somewhere apologize/ outside his class interrupting the class. Following this the ABVP alleged that the prof was stopping them from chanting Vande Mataram and Bharat Mata ki Jai. They also declared him anti-national. Prof apologized by falling at their feet. 9. June, Kutch Girin Baxi They blackened https://www.ne 2019 Univ the face and wsclick.in/abvp parade and -goons- thrashed him. blacken-face- AVBP accused professor- him of parade-him- selectively through- rejecting voter campus- registration gujarat-varsity forms. 10 Nov BHU Feroz Khan Students https://www.bb 2019 boycotted Prof c.com/news/wo because he was rld-asia-india- Musli; said 50557616 Muslims could not teach Sanskrit. He transferred to a different faculty. No action taken against students. 11. Dec, BHU Shantilal Salvi Hit by students https://thewireh 2019 using casteist indi.com/10378 slurs 6/bhu-dalit- Supported prof-says- another Prof chased-by- Feroz Khan. students-for- backing-firoze- complains-to- proctor/ Physical Attacks on Students S. Date University Name of Nature of Source No /college Student or Action beating, . Event harassment, threat 1. Aug St Joseph's In solidarity ABVP cadres https://www.in 19, School at with the Anna broke chairs and diatoday.in/indi 2011 Dumka, Hazare protest tables in a/east/story/ran Jharkhand against principal’s chi-students- corruption office. boycott- ABVP According to the classes-to- demand a one students, the support-anna- day closing of ABVP workers abvp-cadres- all institutions also attempted ransack- to which the to disrupt the missionary- college didn’t classes by school-139590- abide. toppling 2011-08-19 benches 2. Sep, Jadavpur Undisclosed A women https://www.ou 2014 University student was tlookindia.com/ dragged to blog/story/jada men’s hostel vpur- and sexually university- assaulted. This kolkata- led to a midnight- movement police- “Hokkoloro” brutality-leads- translated ‘Let to-hokkolorob- there be c/3391 Uprising’ Protest turned violent. Ruling TMC and police were involved in thrashing the students 3. Nov, Delhi Students from Occupy UGC https://www.th 2015 JNU, DU and movement equint.com/ne many other against ws/india/watch universities withdrawal of -the-media- fellowships. collective- Protesting explain-the- students were occupy-ugc- beaten by the movement police 4. Jan, HCU RohithVemul Suicide https://www.th 2016 a ehindu.com/opi Dalit students nion/lead/Anci (ASA) were ent-prejudice- suspended modern- from hostel inequality/articl facilities. e14007054.ece Casteism & Insitutional https://thewire.i killing. The n/education/the protest -chain-of- continued for a events-leading- long time. to-rohith- Students were vemulas- beaten and suicide arrested along with few HCU professors. 5. Mar, Sundraiah Kanhaiya Goraksha http://twocircle 2016 Vignan Kumar Samiti’s Pawan s.net/2016mar2 Kendram, Kumar threw a 4/1458826083. Hyderaba shoe a JNU html d student leaders Kanhaiya Kumar at a Seminar on Constitutional Rights. He was also denied permission to speak at HCU 6. Feb, Ramjas, Students ABVP beat up https://thewire.i 2017 DU students for n/politics/delhi- organizing a university- seminar at ramjas-abvp which JNU student leader Umar Khalid was invited 7. Feb, DU Students and A day after the https://thewire.i 2017 Faculty Ramjas attack n/politics/delhi- when DU university- students & ramjas-abvp faculty protested against ABVP, they were beaten by ABVP, detained by police 8. Apr, Pulwama Students 54 students https://scroll.in/ 2017 Degree injured Clash article/834990/ College between why-kashmirs- Security forces students-are- and Students. facing-off- The protest against-the- continued security-forces injuring 74 + many more students Sparked by graffiti on a wall at Pulwama Degree College in support of Burhan Wani, killed militant. 9. Sep, BHU Students Police lathi https://thewire.i 2017 charged on n/education/ba women students naras-hindu- protesting the university- inaction of lathi-charge admin in a student molestation case 10. Nov 5, MG Kashi Student’s poll AVBP thrashed https://timesofi 2017 Vidyapeet won by the supporters of ndia.indiatimes h, independent the winning .com/city/varan Varanasi candidate candidate in the asi/abvp-loses- Rahul Dubey hostel student-union- polls-on-pm- modi- turf/articleshow /61514187.cms 11. Nov, Narayana Jayasimha Charges of https://www.th 2017 Junior Reddy, the sexual ehindu.com/tod College, manager of harassment ays-paper/tp- Hyderaba Narayana ABVP national/tp- d Group vandalized the karnataka/Ston office. They e-throwing- also hurled during-protest- stones at a by-ABVP-in- police patrolling Hubli-20- car. Barged into arrested/article college leading 14763604.ece to destruction of property 12. Mar, Kota Sudipta All-women https://thewire.i 2018 Hazarika patrolling n/gender/wome squads set up by n-patrolling- the local police squad-in-kota- around thrashes- coaching assam-girl-two- institutes in men-jailed-for- Kota, intervening Rajasthan, reportedly Note: The harassing police thrashed students, her and the especially girls. shop owner where she was charging her mobile 13. July, LU, PoojaShukla Beaten and http://twocircle 2018 Lucknow and ors detained by s.net/2018jul05 police for /424087.html protesting against the arbitrary decision of LU for not showing entrance result 14. Aug, Constituti Umar Khalid JNU Student https://www.th 2018 on Club of leader Umar ehindu.com/ne India, Khalid was shot ws/cities/Delhi/ Delhi at by gunmen jnus-umar- who had been khalid-shot-at- radicalized by escapes- the anti-JNU unhurt/article2 rhetoric 4677378.ece 15. Sep, Zakir Students ABVP https://sabrangi 2018 Hussian Vandalized ndia.in/tags/ab College, property and vp?page=1 DU assaulted students and staff 16. Oct, Allahabd AUSU and ABVP torched https://sabrangi 2018 Univ, UP other students hostel rooms ndia.in/tags/ab and threw vp?page=1 crude bombs after losing the student union elections 17. Sep, https://www.sa St. John Students A mob of nearly brangindia.in/a 2019 Berchman 500 right wing rticle/right- s Inter extremists wing-goons- Colleg, allegedly vandalize- Mundli stormed and jesuit-college- jharkhand Tinpahar, damaged the Jharkhand college, terrifying students and faculty in the process. The mob gathered with sticks, chains, iron bars, knives and pistols, and beat up tribal inmates of the Loyola Adivasi Hostel. While two boys were seriously injured, the rest were saved due to the timely intervention of sisters (nuns). Although an ambulance was called the mob allegedly did not allow it to go through until the police arrived. Fr. Kuzhively told that the police then took the boys to hospital. Another priest Fr. Nobor Bilung who tried to talk to the mob was also physically assaulted and sustained a head injury. The mob also allegedly sexually harassed female students and staff. They also allegedly broke pipes, furnishing, electric and audio systems. The mob vandalised the place and stole cash and three cell phones from the office 19. Sep Jadavpur JU students The ABVP https://timesofi 20, University protesting invited the ndia.indiatimes 2019 , West against BJP minister for .com/city/kolka Bengal MP Babul their fresher’s ta/abvp- Supriyo program, which supporters- the other commit-arson- students at-ju-gate- protested ransack-rooms- against. on- Members of campus/articles Durga Vahini how/71209836. (RSS women’s cms wing) also joined ABVP AVBP burnt a tea stall outside the campus & ransacked the Arts union room near gate No.
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