In its action taken report on the Ramjas College violence earlier this year, the Delhi Police has accused five Delhi University professors of inciting and leading a group that shouted slogans about azadi, reported Hindustan Times. The police submitted the report before a city court on Thursday, in which it said the students participating in a literary festival came out of the conference room raising slogans against the Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad (ABVP), the RSS’ student wing.
The police was examining students and teachers to identify the culprits involved in the Ramjas College clashes that broke out between the ABVP and Left-affiliated AISA early this year.
The report was filed before the Metropolitan Magistrate in connection with a complaint seeking lodging of an FIR in the Ramjas College incident in which anti-national slogans were allegedly raised by members of students groups AISA and SFI in February this year.
Police has also given notice to the college principal to provide the footage of the CCTV installed in the college or any video recording conducted by the administration at the time of the incident.
Regarding a video footage provided by the complainant, the police said as of now its authenticity is not clear and it has been obtained from an unknown social network and media websites and "apparently looks doctored".
“There is no authentic source of the media content and it appears that it has been made from antecedent events such as previous speeches of Umar Khalid,” the report said, referring to the student who was allegedly involved in raising anti-national slogans in the JNU.
The report said the inquiry committee, which has been probing complaints relating to the incidents of 21 and 22 February this year, has so far recorded statements of 62 witnesses, including students and police officials.
On 21 February, members of the ABVP had gathered outside the college and shouted slogans in protest against a seminar for which JNU students Umar Khalid and Shehla Rashid were invited.
The ABVP members allegedly pelted stones, vandalised the venue and disrupted the seminar.
The next day violent clashes erupted between the Left and the ABVP students leaving several of them and three teachers injured.
(With inputs from PTI.)
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