“If Kasab had rushed Jamia library with his gun, he would be called innocent”: Kapil Mishra

From the past two days, a series of videos have emerged of the incident two months after the alleged police brutality in Jamia Millia Islamia University

New Delhi: Delhi BJP leader Kapil Mishra on Monday Waded into the controversy over video clips of December 15 violence at Jamia Millia Islamia University. Mishra said that even the Mumbai terror attack convict Azmal Kasab would be termed “innocent” had he entered the university library with a gun.

From the past two days, a series of videos have emerged of the incident two months after the alleged police brutality in Jamia Millia Islamia University.

“If that day Kasab had rushed in the Jamia library with his gun, he would be called an innocent” Mishra tweeted, days after getting defeated in the Delhi assembly elections.

Among the videos one of them surfaces online, police can be seen beating students as they try to escape in the Jamia library. In another video, some students can be seen rushing into the library room, some of them with their faces covered. Some of the policemen also had their faces covered.

The JMI University has denied leaking the footage while the Delhi police have said that its special investigation team (SIT) probing the violence in Jamia Nagar area on December 15 will analyze all the video clips to establish the exact sequence of the events on the day.

Mishra, a former MLA of the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) joined the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) last year after falling out with Delhi chief minister Arvind Kejriwal.

Earlier this month during Delhi elections, he sparked a major controversy saying the polls would be an India-Pakistan contest. His statement led the Election Commission to slap him with a ban on campaigning. Mishra was among those BJP leaders who ran a hyper national campaign.

Kapil Mishra fought the election from his old constituency of Model Town, lost to AAP’s Akhilesh Pati Tripathi by over 11,000 votes.