Police entered the Jamia Millia Islamia University (JMI) campus in the capital on Sunday and detained more than 100 students, beating activists in the street and firing teargas. JMI was shut on Monday, as were nearby schools and offices, after barricades and buses were set alight during the protest.
Anti-riot police also subjected students marching at Aligarh Muslim University in Uttar Pradesh on Sunday to alleged brutality, reportedly firing teargas into crowds and arresting dozens. An internet block was implemented in the area on Sunday night and remained in place on Monday in an attempt to quell the mounting unrest.
Iman Usmani, an 18-year-old undergraduate student at JMI stated: “They fired teargas shells at us, before they resorted to caning us ruthlessly. They did not even spare the girls. I received several injuries mostly from the beatings by the police. I fell unconscious. Some senior students took me to a hospital where I received medical treatment.”
On Sunday more than 6,000 people took to the streets in the state’s biggest city, Guwahati, where police and military troops were deployed, a mobile and broadband internet blockade remained in place for the forth day in a row and a night-time curfew imposed. About 150 organisers and activists were arrested by police and held in a makeshift open air jail in one of the city’s parks.
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