A new CCTV footage showing New Delhi police beating up students in the library of Jamia Milia Islamia when it went on campus to stop protests against India’s controversial citizenship law on December 15 has emerged through twitter.
The footage shows that the police officers entered the premise in riot suiting and recklessly started torturing the students who were just studying. The area they entered was of the university’s old reading hall. The footage has gone viral and has evoked rage amongst students of that university. The video was released by the Jamia Coordination Committee (JCC) who quoted, “Exclusive CCTV Footage of Police Brutality in Old Reading Hall, First floor-M.A/M.Phill Section on 15/12/2019 Shame on you @DelhiPolice”
But why did the Delhi Police do it?
On December 15 Delhi police forces stormed the varsity in New Delhi after students protesting against the controversial citizenship law. More than 100 activists protesting against the new law were brutally beaten in Delhi as they clashed with police who used tear gas and baton charges to disperse demonstrators from the venue. Violent protests have spread across India after the successful passage of the Citizenship Amendment Act in the Indian parliament. According to the new law, India will grant citizenship to people of numerous faiths fleeing persecution from Muslim-majority neighbouring countries, except Muslims. To read more from ProperGaanda: Digink pokes fun at the Solis Festival being cancelled midway