New Delhi : Police said they were able to identify ABVP assailants responsible for violence over non-veg meals being served in at JNU hostel, adding that, an FIR has been registered in the incident.
A complaint in the regard was received early morning Monday, said police. The attack was unleashed with perpetrators shouting there shall be no non-veg food during Navaratri. Several, including girls, suffered injuries in the violence. Visuals, out soon after the incident, show ABVP workers barging into the hostel and assaulting students. Attackers are seen hurling stones and beat students badly with sticks. The injured students were subsequently shifted to hospital nearby.
The student unions should pull down ABVP ‘s communal move to deprive right to choice of food, said Students Union president Aisha Ghosh.
