The Delhi High Court is hearing a batch of petitions seeking an independent inquiry into alleged police atrocities in the Jamia Milia Islamia campus in the backdrop of anti-CAA protests.Follow live updates from the hearing here...
The Delhi High Court is hearing a batch of petitions seeking an independent inquiry into alleged police atrocities in the Jamia Milia Islamia campus in the backdrop of anti-CAA protests.
Follow live updates from the hearing here :
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2020-08-04 07:17:37
4 Aug 2020 11:10 AM GMT
Jaising cites sec 124 of the Delhi Police Act which clarifies that there's no impunity provided to the police for using disproportionate force or causing unreasonable violence
4 Aug 2020 11:08 AM GMT
Jaising: These sections impose duty of proportionality and reasonableness on police force
4 Aug 2020 11:07 AM GMT
Jaising: When no student was arrested, what was the purpose of entering the campus.
'The intention was sheer vindictiveness, teaching a lesson to the students with a danda', she argues
4 Aug 2020 11:07 AM GMT
Jaising: Where is the demand from the police to enter the University campus? z they had the loudspeakers, phones, walkie-talkie, but they didn't make a demand for entering the campus
4 Aug 2020 11:07 AM GMT
Jaising cites sections 46 and 47 of the CrPC to argue that the police should've taken the prior permission of the University before the entering the campus
4 Aug 2020 11:07 AM GMT
'Law has to take its own course against the police as well. Just because you wear an uniform, it doesn't give you a right to blind a student. Police must be ready to face the trial', Jaising argues
4 Aug 2020 11:07 AM GMT
Jaising argues that it's an act of sheer vindictiveness and madness on the part of the police
4 Aug 2020 11:06 AM GMT
Stones and bottles are not firearms', Jaising argues
4 Aug 2020 11:06 AM GMT
Jaising argues that institutions are given independence for a reason and the same shall be respected
'It's a check on arbitrary use of police power', she argues
4 Aug 2020 11:06 AM GMT
Jaising: Universities across the world have arisen from the context from autonomy; they're free to make even their laws