- Ex-DU Professor, SAR Geelani, charged with sedition, remanded to two days police custody.
- Home Minister Rajnath Singh calls the attack on journalists “unfortunate”.
- Women’s Press Corps (WPC) submitted a petition to the HMO, demanding accountability of Delhi Police.
- A delegation of journalists approach Rajnath Singh.
- Journalists march towards the Supreme Court from the Press Club to protest against the attack outside the Patiala House Court.
- FIR registered against “unknown people” for attacking scribes.
- At all party meet, PM Modi’s assures JNU crisis will be discussed in the Parliament.
Students of Jadavpur University, in Kolkata held a protest march this evening. Reports say anti-national slogans raised at the march.
JNU Library Website Hacked
The website of the JNU library has allegedly been hacked into by someone who identifies himself as “black dragon”.
The page is currently unaccessible.
Kejriwal Writes to Modi
Delhi CM Arvind Kejriwal has written to Prime Minister Narendra Modi “over the incidents that have taken place in Delhi in recent days”.
He has asked the PM to take “immediate action against elements like OP Sharma”.
On Monday, BJP MLA OP Sharma was caught on camera thrashing a member of the Communist Party of India (CPI) Ameeque Jamai. Sharma had claimed that Jamai was yelling “Pakistan zindabad”.
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Sharma then said Jamai attacked him when he asked the latter to stop sloganeering against the country. Sharma also alleged he tried to flee the spot when Sharma and his men chased Jamai and thrashed him.
FIR In Patiala House Court Case
An FIR has been registered in the case of an attack on journalists outside the Patiala House Court on Monday, the Delhi Police commissioner BS Bassi has said.