NEW DELHI: Delhi Police on Wednesday wrote to the JNU administration searching for permission to enter the campus to hold out an investigation into the violence that erupted on Sunday. Thus far, cops have performed solely an preliminary inquiry.
“We need to personally work together with college students to know precisely what occurred that day that led to the brawl. The sequence of occasions shouldn't be very clear until now,” a supply stated.
Police have obtained conflicting and a number of complaints, with one group of scholars claiming the brawl was over serving of non-vegetarian meals throughout Navratri and one other alleging the conflict was over organising Ram Navami puja.
Investigators have gotten 25-30 purported movies of the incident, all of them forwarded. “We now have to confirm the authenticity of the movies and confirm whether or not they have been edited,” an officer stated. One other investigator stated it was vital to know their supply, and a forensic scan of the cell phones on which they have been shot would must be accomplished.
Sources added that the world the place the violence was reported was not lined by CCTV cameras. “There have been cameras previously however these have been damaged,” an investigator stated.
In one of many complaints, college students alleged that a meat vendor was additionally crushed, however cops haven't questioned him to this point.
On the idea of complaints obtained from the 2 teams of scholars, Delhi Police had on Monday registered two FIRs below IPC sections 323 (punishment for voluntarily inflicting damage), 341 (punishment for wrongful restraint), 509 (phrase, gesture or act supposed to insult the modesty of a lady), 506 (punishment for prison intimidation) and 34 (acts accomplished by a number of individuals in furtherance of widespread intention). “Investigation is on to gather scientific proof and determine the culprits,” an officer stated.
In the meantime, safety across the JNU campus has been heightened to avert any untoward incident.