On the evening of December 15, the Delhi police entered the campus of Jamia Millia Islamia. They vandalised the library and rooms, they beat up students and loosed tear gas shells on them, they detained many people.
Afterwards, the administration claimed that the damage was a consequence of the police chasing“outsiders” – people living in the surrounding locality of Jamia Nagar, who had crashed into our campus that evening after protests against the discriminatory Citizenship Amendment Act came to be marked by violence.
I was on campus that evening – I am a final-year undergraduate student at the department of English at Jamia living in one of the girls’ hostels. I, and others who were there, know that the protesters that evening included students as well as people from surrounding areas.
Not many know that the protests of December 15 had started largely because of police action on December 13. That day, the police had used tear gas on protesting students at the engineering campus. On December 15, the people from the surrounding areas turned up to support the protest of Jamia students, not disrupt it. When the police allegedly came for these outsiders, they took shelter in the campus because they see it as their extended home.
They were not...
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