While the students’ side of the story has been constant that Delhi police fired at them, the explanations from the police’s side have changed over a period of time.
In the last few days, to protest against the CAA many students came on the ground. On Sunday Jamia University students in Delhi also gathered to protest which took a violent turn later. Students and police clashed disturbing the environment around. According to students, Delhi police stormed the University campus and brutally attacked the students. The students alleged that the police barged in their hostel rooms, Library and used teargas. They even used lathi-charge.
The students claimed that they were sitting and studying for their scheduled exams. They saw a number of police entering inside the library and lathi-charging students. Fearing for their lives students started running around and broke glasses for the gas to pass out. Breathing unconscious and hit by the lathis, students managed to save their lives.
Several videos indicating students’ claim surfaced on social media as well.
Recounting the police attack in the university library, one Jamia student said, “There were 50-60 students in the library. When the police started lobbing teargas towards the library, the students came upstairs and roughly 15 mins later, the police entered the campus by force. They broke the doors of the library and started shelling tear gas. He said that the students in the library were not part of any protest”.
Students claimed police were overpowering them. They started firing at the protestors on the exterior of the campus. The passers-by who were neither the student nor the protestors were also injured in the firing. The one who suffered was immediately hospitalized in Holy Family hospital. The hospital claimed the patient was injured because of some foreign body inserting in his leg.
Under the section ‘Medical History’, it says “Sustained Gunshot Injury to Left Leg”. The top police official for Delhi’s southeast district, Chinmoy Biswal, in a statement, said, “I hope we all understand the meaning of ‘Alleged History of’ on a medical paper. It means what the patient has himself or herself told the duty doctor about the injury while coming for treatment.”
The Director of the Holy Family Hospital in a statement said, “When the patient was brought to the hospital, the people accompanying him raised suspicion of a bullet injury. However, during treatment, no bullet wound was removed. It was a foreign body.”
But Tamin denied the explanation given by Police. He was injured in tear gas firing. He says a policeman shot at him from close range. As he saw one policemen coming close to him and shooting.
One of the students who was protesting was injured by the police bullet, the students claimed. Ajaz, 22, is the final year BA student of Jamia University. He was immediately taken to hospital for further treatment. the bullet was fired in his chest making him unconscious and he fell on the ground. The doctors have taken out the bullet and it was proved that he is injured because of a bullet.
“He is out of danger but still feels difficult to breathe,” doctors confirmed. His parents said, “He was in the first two days of protest but not on the third day when he was actually hurt.”
However, doctors said that they cannot disclose the details because of restrictions by police.
According to local sources, police present in the hospital are taking utmost care that the details should not reach out to media.
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While the students’ side of the story has been constant that police fired at them, the explanations from the police’s side have changed over a period of time. However, they seemed to have finally settled on the claim that injuries caused were due to shrapnel from tear-gas shells. In a statement, the MHA clarified that Police did not file a single bullet.
The police named the other injured person admitted to Safdarjung as Shoaib Khan, 23, who they said had “injury of pallets (sic)” in his leg.
The police later clarified that by pellet injuries, they meant injuries from tear gas shrapnel. “It needs to be investigated whether the bullets were fired by police personnel or someone else. Police are likely to approach ballistic experts for more clarity,” police said.
Delhi Police have officially denied that they “fired bullets at any student”, and said that they would investigate the matter.
However, the constantly changing statements by the police are puzzling.
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