Jamia Millia Islamia Violence: 7-8 Students Pelted Stones From Inside Campus, Say Delhi Police; Three Students Named in FIR

New Delhi, December 18: The FIR filed by Police in connection with the Jamia Millia Islamia incident states that a total of 75 tear gas shells were used by the police to disperse the mob at the university. It further states that 7-8 students and miscreants were pelting stones from inside the university gates. According to an NDTV report, three students of Jamia Millia have been named in the FIR filed on Sunday's violence during the protest march against the Citizenship Amendment Act.

Ten people with criminal background have so far been arrested for the violence, that kickstarted a series of protests by students across the country. No Jamia student is on that list. Jamia Millia Islamia Protests: 10 People With Criminal Background Arrested in Connection With Violence During Anti-CAA Stir, None of Them Students.

In the FIR filed by the police, it is also mentioned that the cops had entered into the campus with limited force to identify miscreants and for safety of students. The names of the students include- Kasim Usmani, a member of the CYSS, Chandan Kumar, a member of Left wing student organisation All India Students Association and Asif Tanha, a member of the Students Islamic Organisation of India.

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On Sunday, the incident took an ugly turn, when Police had thrown teargas shells inside the campus, and barged into the campus and dragged students out of the library before assaulting them. Following this, there were protests, where buses and other vehicles in some parts of South Delhi were set on fire.

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