CAA Protest: Students Detained During Protests In Jamia Released; Sit-in Outside PHQ Called Off

Of the 50 students, 35 were released from the Kalkaji police station and 15 from the New Friends Colony police station, a senior police officer said.

New Delhi: Students and other protest against the police action against students of the Jamia Millia Islamia University. at PHQ in New Delhi, Sunday night, Dec. 15, 2019. (PTI Photo/Manvender Vashist)(PTI12_15_2019_000276B)

New Delhi: Hundreds of students who were protesting against the police action on the violence in Jamia Millia Islamia university dispersed after staging six hours of sit-in in front of the Delhi Police headquarters in the early hours of Monday, demanding release of the detained students. As many as 50 students, who were detained during protests at the Jamia Millia Islamia University here on Sunday, were released in the early hours of Monday, police said. Of the 50 students, 35 were released from the Kalkaji police station and 15 from the New Friends Colony police station, a senior police officer said. Police had clamped down on the protesters after incidents of arson and stone-pelting was reported in the campus. Earlier on Sunday night, the Delhi Minority Commission (DMC) issued a direction to the SHO of Kalkaji Police Station to release the "injured" Jamia students held there or take them for treatment at a reputed hospital without any delay. The commission also directed the officer to file a compliance report by 3 pm on Monday. In the order, DMC Chairman Zafarul Islam Khan said failure to implement it will attract appropriate action. Protesters torched four public buses and two police vehicles as they clashed with the police in New Friends Colony, near Jamia Millia Islamia, during a demonstration against the amended Citizenship Act on Sunday, leaving nearly 60 people including students, cops and fire fighters injured. Police used batons and teargas shells to disperse the violent mob, but denied firing at them. While the Delhi Police refuted reports of any casualty during the clashes, videos of purported police firing, injured students in the university bathroom as well as footage of them bleeding emerged on the social media.