Jamia Violence Highlights: IIM Students, Teachers Slam Citizenship Amendment Act
Anti-CAA Protests Highlights: Hundreds of students staged protest against the police action against their companions a day earlier, outside Jamia Millia Islamia University on Monday. Carrying a tricolour, students clapped and raised slogans against the central government and the Delhi Police.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi in a series of tweets has said while dissent is an essential part of democracy, violence is not. He was articulating government's stand on the contentious Citizenship Amendment Act.
Meanwhile, Congress and several opposition political parties on Monday condemned the police "brutality" against students of the University and demanded a judicial inquiry into the incidents.
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ABP News BureauLast Updated: 16 Dec 2019 11:01 PM
Background
Over 1,000 students and faculty of premier management institutes, primarily the Indian Institutes of Management (IIMs), have issued a statement against the Citizenship Amendment Act, calling it 'discriminatory and violative of the Constitution'.
The online letter, signed and endorsed by as many as 1,053 students and teachers, says: As citizens and members of the academic community, we write to register our protest at the recent enactment of the Citizenship Amendment Act 2019.
This letter marks another strong protest against the CAA as has been seen across the universities in the country.
The Supreme Court on Monday decided to hear the clutch of pleas challenging the constitutional validity of the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) on Wednesday. With over a dozen pleas filed in the apex court, a bench of Chief Justice S.A. Bobde and comprising Justices B.R. Gavai and Surya Kant said that they all will be heard along with other pending matters on December 18.
