Cops rain lathis on anti- CAA marchers Ten women students of Jamia Millia Islamia Univeristy have reportedly sustained injuries to their private parts Police resort to lathicharge when scores of Jamia Millia students and residents of Jamia Nagar try to march towards Parliament on Monday; several protesters injured. PICS/ PTI New Delhi: The Delhi police on Monday resorted to lathicharge when scores of students of Jamia Millia Islamia University and residents of Jamia Nagar pushed through the barricades to march towards Parliament. Several students sustained injuries and were admitted to the Jamia Health Centre.
The protesters started the march from Jamia university against the Citizenship ( Amendment) Act ( CAA), the National Population Register ( NPR) and the proposed nationwide National Register of Citizens ( NRC) and had planned to march up to Parliament House.
However, the security forces stopped them near Holy Family Hospital in Okhla. The police said the protesters did not have permission for the march and they did not end their agitation despite repeated appeals from the police officers.
According to an India Today report, police not only thrashed the protesting students and resident with lathis, but hit them with their boots and feet as well. Several students, both women and men, were admitted to the Jamia Health Centre with injuries to their private parts, elbows and chest.
u201c More than 10 women students have been hit on their private parts. We have found blunt injuries and we had to shift some of them to Al- Shifa because injuries are serious in nature,u201d India Today quoted the doctors at the centre as saying.
u201c I have been hit on my private parts by cops with boots.
One of the woman cops took off my burqa and hit me on my private parts with a lathi,u201d a student told India Today.
u201c Police hit me on my private part with their feet. They were beating up women so I went to their rescue when the police hit me on my chest and back with sticks,u201d one of the injured student said.
Al- Shifa hospital confirmed to India Today that at least nine people u2014 eight Jamia students and a local u2014 were brought in after the protest.
u201c One of the students has suffered severe injuries, we have shifted him to the ICU,u201d they said. After failing to continue their march to Parliament, several students and locals sat on a dharna outside the university. The police officers said they have detained some of the protesters.
u201c We can keep sitting whole day and shout slogans. They say we do not have permission to march to Parliament. Do people who have flashed guns here and there at protests in the past weeks have permission?u201d Farzana, a Jamia student, asked. Another protester said, u201c It has been two months since we started the protest.
But no one from the government has come to speak to us, so now we want to go to talk to themu201d. Agencies u2018 I have been hit on my private parts by cops with boots. One of the woman cops took off my burqa and hit me on my private parts with a lathiu2019 A student New Delhi: u201c Can a 4- monthold child be taking part in such ( Shaheen Bagh) protests?u201d the Supreme Court asked on Monday while warning some women lawyers for making u201c explosive submissionsu201d that children participating in these anti- CAA agitations are being called u2018 terroristu2019, u2018 gaddaru2019 ( traitor), u2018 Pakistaniu2019, in school.
The SC took suo motu cognisance of the letter written by a national bravery award winner Zen Gunratan Sadavarte, seeking that minors be barred from participating in any type of protest and agitation.
u201c They ( children) come home crying,u201d submitted advocates Shahrukh Alam and Nandita Rao. The bench then asked, u201c A four- month- old had gone to protest? But tell us which four- month- old child goes on its own to protest sites.u201d Alam, appearing for mother of two, said given that India has ratified UN Conventions on childrenu2019s right to protest it was not appropriate for the SC suo motu taking up the matter.
u201c We are not considering either CAA or NRC. We are not considering the abuses like Pakistani hurled in schools,u201d the SC said. The bench made it clear that it was not stifling anybodyu2019s voice. The SC on Monday also said that the protesters u201c cannot block the public roads. There cannot be indefinite period of protest in such an area. If you want to protest, it has to be in an area identified for protestu201d. A gencies Case against Shaheen Bagh sit- in: Can four- month- old take part in protest, asks SC
