Video: New Jamia tape shows brutal assault by police

Delhi police has come under flak for heavy-handedness against students during protests

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A screen-grab from the video shows police assaulting students seated inside the library.
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New Delhi: Police said the video has come to their knowledge and they will investigate it as part of their ongoing probe, Special Commissioner of Police (Intelligence) Praveer Ranjan said.

The 48-second video shows some seven to eight paramilitary and police personnel entering the Old Reading Hall and beating students with batons.

The video was released by the JCC in the early hours of Sunday.

On December 15, the university had turned into a battlefield as police entered the campus to look for outsiders who were involved in incidents of violence and arson a few metres away from the educational institute during a protest against the Citizenship (Amendment) Act.

Police had faced flak over its alleged action on students in the library.

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