The Delhi HC on Monday issued notices on a petition filed by a Jamia Millia Islamia student seeking compensation of Rs 2 cr. for injuries he sustained during Dec. 15 violence.
New Delhi| Shayyan Mujeeb, a Jamia student, who suffered injuries on both his legs due to the alleged police brutality inside the library, has sought a compensation of Rs 2 crore.
Mujeeb had reportedly spent Rs 2 lakh on his treatment.
On Sunday, the students’ organisation in Jamia released a video that showed uniformed personnel in riot gear indiscriminately beating students with batons and lathis inside the university’s library.
The video is from the evening of December 15, 2019, when Delhi Police and the paramilitary Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) entered the campus, apparently in pursuit of miscreants who had allegedly set buses on fire in the vicinity of the university.
Some of the men seen attacking the students in the video have their faces covered with handkerchieves.
Delhi Police, who had initially denied having ever entered the library, on Sunday said they were “verifying” the video, and that it appeared to have been “edited”.
Jamia university authorities confirmed that the video in circulation was from December 15, and was from the university library, but said that they did not release it. They said the footage had been given to various investigating agencies.
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Jamia Vice-Chancellor Najma Akhtar had earlier said that police had not taken any permission to enter the university.
A bench of Chief Justice D N Patel and Justice C Hari Shankar notices to the Central government and Delhi Police seeking their stand on the student’s petition. They have to submit their response by May 27.
The counsel, appearing for Mujeeb, told the court that his client has broken both his legs and will limp for life. The Centre, however, objected to his claim.
Earlier another student, Mohd Minhajuddin, had moved a plea seeking a probe into the incident and compensation for injuries suffered by him.
Minhajuddin, according to his plea, had lost vision in one eye in the incident.
Protests against the newly-enacted Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) had turned violent on December 15 near Delhi’s Jamia Nagar.
As many as 14 buses were burnt and 20 private vehicles were torched in that violence. Police later entered Jamia, firing tear gas shells and baton-charging students.
Several students, including the petitioner, were injured in the police crackdown.
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