Protests were organised in Kolkata, Mumbai and Pune against the violence that broke out in Delhi's JNU. Students of Javadavpur University in Kolkata, IIT-Bombay and FTII in Pune took out marches around midnight in solidarity with the students who were attacked by 50-60 masked men and women inside the JNU campus on Sunday evening.
Violence broke out in Delhi's Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) today evening. 19 students and a teacher are receiving treatment AIIMS Trauma Centre. All of them have sustained head injuries. Jawaharlal Nehru University Student Union President Aishe Ghosh, who got injured in the violence, said she was attacked by "goons wearing masks". A group of masked goons entered the campus and went on a rampage, targetting teachers and students.
Eyewitnesses said 50-odd masked goons had entered the campus around 6.30 pm. A professor, Atul Sood, told NDTV, "The mob entered hostels and threw huge stones, vandalising property." Aishe Ghosh, the president of the students' union, said, "I have been brutally attacked by goons wearing masks. I have been bleeding. I was brutally beaten up".
The police, they said, are yet to take action.
