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") "*+, According to Mandeep Singh Randhawa, the Deputy Commissioner of Police and PRO, the internal security of Q ,R the JNU lies with the varsity R administration. “Police have responded to ## 4678690* nexus of JNU security and alleged that the masked goons the PCR calls, and law-and- vandals. They did not intervene belonged to the Left-backed order situation professionally. day after the violent attack to stop violence,” Ghosh told students union. The ABVP + ' P , " # +- A fact finding committee under Aon some students of reporters. said the secretary of ABVP Shalini Singh, Joint Jawaharlal Nehru University “For last 4-5 days, some JNU unit and ABVP’s JNUSU 4678690* of unease filled the campus ing entry of only students with footage to identify the rioters Commissioner of Police, (JNU) by masked miscreants RSS-affiliated professors were presidential candidate Manish after the unprecedented assault valid ID cards, these measures and have registered an FIR Western range, has been on the campus, JNU Students’ promoting violence to break Jangid sustained severe injuries day after the masked on students and faculty mem- did not assuage the concerns of against unknown assailants. formed and the committee will Union (JNUSU) president our movement. Are we wrong and was left with a fractured Aassailants attacked several bers, with allegations of unholy students over their safety. The JNU administration, be looking after all aspects. The Aishe Ghosh — receiving to ask for the safety from the hand. students, including Jawaharlal nexus among JNU adminis- As the horrific first-person which had called in the police Crime Branch also visited the injuries on head — on Monday JNU and Delhi Police?” the “Many ABVP activists have Nehru University Students’ tration, local police and hooli- accounts of the violence that soon after the Sunday attack, spot on Monday and they have alleged that the incident was a JNUSU president added. suffered head injuries, while Union president Aishe Ghosh, gans, scores of students, includ- left 34 people injured emerged, on Monday appealed to the stu- collected vital clues. Police are pre-planned attack by the Akhil “I was surrounded by 30 eleven are missing. Rumours and faculty members with ing girls, preferred to leave their the Delhi Police on Monday dents to keep calm and has sent also collecting CCTV footages Bharatiya Vidyarti Parishad people who hit me with iron are making round that the sticks and iron rods on the uni- hostels till normalcy returns on transferred the case to the an initial report to the Human and even the entry register at (ABVP) and some “RSS affili- rods continuously. We were masked men belong to ABVP. versity campus on Sunday, no the campus. Despite massive Crime Branch, which claimed Resource Development JNU gate is being checked to ated professors”. punched. They were about to Such mischief must be arrest was made by the Delhi deployment of security per- to have found “vital clues” Ministry which took stock of identify the miscreants behind “It was an organised attack. lynch us and were abusing us,” unequivocally condemned by Police till Monday night. sonnel on the JNU campus and about the masked attackers. the situation. the violence,” said Randhawa. They were singling out people said Ghosh. every right-thinking citizen,” Even as the palpable sense outside and authorities allow- They are sifting through CCTV The JNU Teachers’ Continued on Page 4 and attacking. There is a clear However, the ABVP said the ABVP spokesperson. ## 4678690* P !" # P report from JNU Registrar 4678690* Pramod Kumar. day after the violence on % & Alleging that the V-C was ampuses across the country Athe campus, Jawaharlal unable to cope with the present Cas well abroad reverberat- Nehru University (JNU) Vice situation, the JNU Teachers’ ed with voices of protest and Chancellor M Jagadesh Association (JNUTA) demand- anguish on Monday over the Kumar’s absence from a meet- ed his resignation on Monday. violence in Jawaharlal Nehru ing with the team of the “Where was our supreme University (JNU) and attacks on Ministry of Human Resource authority, the V-C when this students and faculty members Department (HRD) raised attack was happening? Where by an armed masked mob on questions about his where- was he? Why no action was Sunday evening. abouts. Though, a statement taken?,” asked former JNUTA Oxford University and was released by the V-C appeal- president Sonajharia Minz. Sussex University in London ing students to maintain peace Former JNU Chancellor besides Columbia University in on the campus. and senior Congress leader the US witnessed protest over The JNU officials kept con- Karan Singh on Monday the JNU violence while within veying that the V-C was on his slammed the V-C over the the country, demonstrations way and will reach shortly for violence on campus, alleging took place at Pondicherry the meeting which lasted for that he had been “absent” at University, Bangalore almost two hours in the after- & + # ! ) " + this crucial juncture and was University, University of noon, sources in the HRD completely ineffective. Hyderabad, Aligarh Muslim Ministry said. The Ministry the JNU Registrar, Proctor and restore normalcy. “As a former Chancellor of University, University of ' ( - , # # +- met officials from the JNU other administration officials The HRD Ministry had the JNU, I have been shocked Mumbai, Delhi University, administration and took stock who briefed the Ministry offi- called an urgent meeting over beyond belief at the violent and Ambedkar University, Banaras Bai Phule University in Pune, Bombay. campus and also took to twit- of the situation on the campus cials on the sequence of events the violence that took place at condemnable incidents that Hindu University, Chandigarh TISS Mumbai, Jadavpur Students staged peaceful ter with hashtag “SOSJNU” following Sunday’s violence. that took place on the campus JNU. The Ministry had on took place,” said Singh. University, National Law University, Presidency marches to register their protest trending on social media. The meeting was attended by and the measures taken to Sunday sought an immediate Continued on Page 4 University in Bengaluru, Savitri University, Kolkata and IIT against the violence on the JNU Details on P6 ! 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