Recounting Sunday night's shooting at Jamia Millia Islamia University during an anti-CAA protest, students told mid-day how they ran after the shooters but they managed to flee because the barricade, which the police put up every night, was surprisingly missing. They blamed the shootings on the leaders whose provocative statements have "motivated" these people.

THE shots were fired around 11.30 pm, the third unprovoked shooting in the aftermath of the provocative speeches made by BJP leaders during the intense campaigning for the Assembly polls in the national capital. During a recent election rally, Union minister Anurag Thakur had egged on the crowd to raise an incendiary slogan, to "shoot the traitors" after he lashed out at anti-Citizenship (Amendment) Act (CAA) protesters. Later, BJP MP Parvesh Sharma had said that the protesters at Shaheen Bagh will "enter your houses, rape your sisters and daughters and kill them". Interestingly, the Shaheen Bagh stir is being led by women who are accompanied by their children.