Jamia violence: Delhi Police tells court it entered university to rescue innocent students, restore normalcy
FirstpostDelhi Police on Monday filed an action taken report about the Jamia violence in a court and sought the dismissal of a plea seeking FIR against police officials for entering the varsity campus without permission and allegedly subjecting students to brutality. Delhi Police, in the ATR filed before Metropolitan Magistrate Rajat Goyal, said that with a view to contain the violence and maintain law and order, the police were constrained to enter the JMI university campus. Delhi Police also said that during the incident in Jamia, a large number of police officials and public persons were injured and police have registered FIR over the violence. Police said that the unruly mob which was slowly retreating back, instead of dispersing, strategically went inside the Jamia Milia University campus and by using the university campus as a cover started pelting stones, tube-lights and other objects resulting in grievous injuries to police personal and public persons.