Jamia Violence : Live Updates From Delhi HC Hearing

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4 Aug 2020 7:17 AM GMT

  • Jamia Violence : Live Updates From Delhi HC Hearing

    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 :

    Live Updates

    • 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

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