A plea has been moved in the Delhi High Court seeking action against the police personnel who had allegedly assaulted students and journalists during the violence at Ramjas college last week.
The plea has been moved by Tarun Narang and Deepak Joshi, students of Campus Law Centre, Delhi University.
The plea demands lodging of an FIR under various sections of the Indian Penal Code, including assaulting a woman with an intent to outrage her modesty, against the cops and others who allegedly harassed and assaulted women students and journalists during the protest.
‘Issue guidelines’
It also urged the High Court to issue guidelines to law enforcement agencies while dealing with students and media on university campuses.
The petition said “it is unfortunate that female students were manhandled by the Delhi Police, who used excessive force on them, punched them, slapped them and thus outraged their modesty.”
The plea has also sought constitution of an independent committee of senior police officers to probe the matter.
Ramjas College had last week witnessed large-scale violence between members of the AISA and the ABVP.
The genesis of the clash was an invite to JNU students Umar Khalid and Shehla Rashid to address a seminar on ‘Culture of Protests’, which was withdrawn by the college authorities following opposition by the ABVP.
