51 Were Injured In Masked Attacks On JNU Scholars, Academics: Centre
New Delhi:
Altogether 51 folks had been injured and personal automobiles and belongings broken when masked folks, armed with rods and sticks, attacked scholars and lecturers of the Jawaharlal Nehru College (JNU) on January five, Parliament used to be knowledgeable on Tuesday.
In a written respond to a query within the Lok Sabha, Union Minister of State for House G Kishan Reddy mentioned as reported through the Delhi Police, a case used to be registered on the Vasant Kunj North police station on January 6 in regards to the assault.
“Fifty-one individuals sustained accidents and all had been medically tested. No person used to be killed on this incident. Some personal automobiles and belongings had been additionally broken. One of the rioters concerned had been recognized,” the minister mentioned.
Mr Reddy added that the protection measures taken through the police come with deployment of police workforce each outside and inside the JNU campus, liaison with scholars and the college management to handle peace, deployment of police workforce in simple garments across the campus, stationing of a PCR van within the neighborhood of the campus and briefing of scholars and the management to report back to them in an instant if any violent or undesirable process come to their understand at the campus premises.
The JNU had knowledgeable that it had deployed 277 personal safety workforce at the campus 24×7, the minister mentioned.
As reported through the Delhi Police, no case used to be registered in opposition to the injured scholars, Mr Reddy mentioned, including that main points of the investigation may no longer be divulged at this degree.