HC notices to Centre over injured Jamia studentu2019s plea New Delhi: The Delhi High Court on Monday sought responses of the Centre, the AAP government and the city police on a plea by a Jamia Millia Islamia student seeking compensation for injuries suffered allegedly in police action against anti- Citizenship ( Amendment) Act protesters on December 15 last year.
A bench of Chief Justice D N Patel and Justice C Hari Shankar was initially of the view that the petitioner ought to have filed a civil suit if he was seeking compensation as the claims made by him would have to be proved through evidence.
u201c These are matters of evidence. Why are you not filing a suit for damages? On the basis of annexures in a writ, claims cannot be proved,u201d the court said and added that u201c it has become a fashion in Delhi to file a writ for everythingu201d. However, the bench subsequently issued notices to the Ministry of Home Affairs, the university, the Delhi government and the police seeking their stand on the plea in which the student has alleged his both legs got fractured in the u201c brutal violence carried outu201d by security personnel.
In his plea Shayaan Mujeeb has contended that he was in the university library on December 15, 2019 studying, when police personnel entered and allegedly beat students there. Apart from seeking a R 2- crore compensation for the injuries suffered, Mujeeb has also sought registration of an FIR for the offences allegedly committed by the police.
Former Lieutenant Governor of Delhi Najeeb Jung on Monday demanded an investigation into the incident.
A g e n cies Dec 15 When the police entered the library and allegedly hit the students
