AGENCIES
Hundreds of students from different universities and people from citizen groups have gathered outside the Delhi Police Headquarters to protest the force’s handling of the situation after an agitation against the new citizenship law near Jamia university on Sunday turned violent.
The protesters raised anti-police slogans outside the headquarters in ITO area, after a call for it was given by the Jawaharlal Nehru University Students Union. Other students’ bodies endorsed the protest call.
After a clash between protesters and police during a demonstration against the amended citizenship law near Jamia Millia Islamia, at least 35 injured people were taken to a nearby hospital, news agency PTI quoted its sources as saying. Thirty-five people were brought in with injuries to the Holy Family Hospital in Okhla. Eleven of them, the sources said, have been admitted.
MEANWHILE AMU university says authorities decided to declare winter vacation from Monday till January 5. Earlier, it was scheduled to start on December 23. No classes or examination will be held till January 5: AMU Registrar Abdul Hamid. Click here to read more.