Police manhandled us during protest, claim JNU students

Continuing protests over the mysterious disappearance of Jawaharlal Nehru University's (JNU) student Najeeb Amhed, hundreds of varsity students on Wednesday staged a protest at South Delhi's Vasant Vihar police station during which they were allegedly man-handled and detained by the police.

"As many as 20 protesting students were manhandled by the Delhi police out of which 5 sustained injures," Student union President Mohit Pandey said.

According to JNUSU General Secretary Satarupa Chakrobarty "the five students who got injured were first isolated by the police and then beaten up inside the Vasant Vihar police station". "At least 60 students were detained by the police and taken to RK Puram police station," she added.

"The Police pulled them, punched, kicked, choked the students along with choicest of abuses," student leader Umar Khalid said in a facebook post.

"All we were demanding was that those from ABVP who assaulted Najeeb be interrogated. It has been 12 days since Najeeb's dissapperance he was a first-year MSc student and went missing on October 15 following an altercation with some ABVP activists.