Goons, Planning, Police Complicity: What I Saw at JNU Main Gate

Were the barricades and goons meant to divert us while the vandals from inside got away?

(This article was first published on 7 January 2020. It has been republished from The Quint's archives to mark three year of the mob attack on JNU's campus.)

At around 8 pm on Sunday, 5 January, I left from Delhi’s Greater Kailash-2 area to go to Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) to find out what was happening there, after we’d received multiple reports with photos and videos about students being beaten up inside the campus by goons with scarves over their faces, carrying sticks, bats, knives and even sledgehammers.