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.