At least six persons, including students and media persons, were thrashed on Monday by a group of men in lawyer’s robes inside and outside the Patiala House court where the sedition case against JNUSU President Kanhaiya Kumar was to be heard.
Delhi BJP MLA OP Sharma and his supporters beat up an unidentified man outside Patiala House court. He said that people who were chanting slogans ‘Pakistan Zindabad’ were being held by him and his supporters, they were not beating them up.
The man has now been identified as Ameeque Jamai of Communist Party of India (CPI).
A scuffle broke out before the hearing started, as some men, said to be lawyers, entered the courtroom and allegedly started pushing out students and teachers, mostly from JNU, and media persons, asking them to leave the premises.
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