The incident took place during the violent clash between AISA and ABVP supporters.
Ramjas College had on Wednesday witnessed large-scale violence between members of AISA and ABVP workers. The genesis of the clash was an invite to JNU students Umar Khalid and Shehla Rashid to address a seminar on 'Culture of Protests' which was withdrawn by the college authorities following opposition by the RSS student wing. A lot has been written in the past few days about the violence, and on Saturday, a Lady Sri Ram College student who is a Kargil martyr's daughter has initiated a social media campaign, "I am not scared of ABVP", which has gone viral. Gurmehar Kaur, daughter of Kargil martyr Captain Mandeep Singh, changed her Facebook profile picture holding a placard which read "I am a student from Delhi University. I am not afraid of ABVP. I am not alone. Every student of India is with me. #StudentsAgainstABVP".
Now in another shocking revelation, an ABVP member and a student of Kirori Mal College, said she was harassed by Left activists. Speaking to Hindi News 18, the girl who is also an NCC cadet, said that there were around 60-70 students there and her clothes were torn. She said she was hit on her chest in front of everyone, and her clothes were ripped apart.
In a Facebook post, she wrote that she went home and cried. She told her father that she was protesting for the country, and that she couldn’t tolerate this insult to the nation. She added that she couldn't stand these abuses against people in uniform. She wrote that her parents were extremely supportive of her decision to stand up to goons, and that her father of was proud of her. She went on to 'thank' the members of AISA, SFI and other ‘anti-national elements’ for giving her the chance to ‘fight back’.
Earlier, reacting to the incident, the government has sought a report from Delhi University in connection with the violence at Ramjas College which left many injured. "I have asked for a report from the University on the issue," Union HRD Minister Prakash Javadekar told reporters at a press conference.
Delhi Commission for Women has ordered an enquiry into the alleged attacks on women by policemen during violence at Delhi University's Ramjas college and has issued a notice to Delhi Police.
Ramjas College on Wednesday had witnessed large-scale violence between members of AISA and ABVP supporters.
The clashes had erupted after an invitation was sent to JNU students Umar Khalid and Shehla Rashid to address a seminar on 'Culture of Protests' which was withdrawn by the college authorities following opposition by the ABVP.
"We are of the view that these attacks on women protesters by policemen may also amount to molestation and need to be severely punished. The images of Delhi Police officers beating and misbehaving with women protesters are resonating across Delhi and India and have severely damaged the reputation of Delhi Police. It is a classic case of protectors turning abusers," said the notice issued to Joint CP, central Range.
"Further, the Commission is aghast to read newspaper reports alleging that Delhi Police claims it does not know who ordered the lathi charge on the protesters. Such statements raise suspicions about politicisation of police and the matter needs to be investigated urgently," it added.
DCW Chief Swati Maliwal has pointed out in the notice that a similar "manhandling" of female students by policemen had happened last year when they were protesting in connection with the case of missing JNU student Najeeb Ahmed.
The commission has asked police to respond within a week with information on "number of police officers (male and female separately) deployed in and around Ramjas College for the said protest, names and designations of the Police cops clearly identifiable in the videos and photographs who were seen punching and manhandling women protesters".
"How can we intervene? They are an autonomous university. Police will investigate and take required action," he had said. "Nobody... neither the university, college administration nor the students have approached us for help so far," he had said on a query about law and order situation on the campus. Ramjas College witnessed violent clashes yesterday as students of RSS-backed ABVP and Left-affiliated AISA, armed with hockey sticks, rained blows on each other, causing injuries to many.
With inputs from agencies
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