India’s JMI University distances itself from police assault video
Footage shows police personnel purportedly barging into the library at JMI in Delhli
New Delhi: After video footage went viral, of police assaulting students in the library at Jamia Millia Islamia, on the night of December 15, the university has distanced itself from the video.
In a statement issued to media, university authorities said, “It has come to our notice that some video with regard to police brutality in Dr Zakir Husain Library of the Jamia Millia Islamia [JMI] is in circulation. This is to clarify that the video has not been released by the university.”
Further in the statement, the university also said the Jamia Coordination Committee (JCC), which has been spearheading the anti-Citizenship Amendment Act protest outside Jamia’s Gate Number 7, was not an official body of the university.
“This is to clarify that JCC is not an official body of the university,” Jamia said in the statement.
“Any communication from JCC should not be taken as communication from the university,” the university added.
The said video was allegedly circulated on JCC’s official WhatsApp group.
The latest footage which surfaced on Saturday night, shows police personnel purportedly barging into the library at Jamia Millia Islamia, following protests that ended in arson and stone pelting amid anti-CAA protests in the region.