Jamia Violence: What Amit Shah Claimed & What CCTV Footage Shows

What Amit Shah claimed vs what CCTV shows happened in Jamia Millia Islamia: How justified was the HM’s defence?

What Amit Shah claimed and what CCTV shows.

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Video Editor: Vishal Kumar

Police crackdown on Jamia, innocent students beaten up, library and mosque not spared either!

Several students were injured, one even lost his eye following police brutality on the campus of Jamia Millia Islamia on 15 December 2019.

Delhi Police barged into the campus, library and mosques and brutally beat up students. Tear gas shells were used and even bullets were fired.

However, Home Minister Amit Shah has often been heard saying that ‘students haven’t read the CAA properly’ or that ‘ Delhi Police was doing their duty by stopping violence'.

The violence on the university campus followed protests against Citizenship (Amendment) Act that got passed in the Parliament on 12 December 2019.

The Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) seeks to fast-track citizenship for persecuted Hindus, Parsis, Sikhs, Buddhists, Jains and Christians who came to India before 31 December 2014.

Recently, several CCTV footage clips have been released both by the students and Delhi Police claiming two entirely different versions of what took place on the university campus on 15 December 2019.

However, the defence given by the home minister deserves scrutiny in light of fresh evidence.