Aligarh Muslim University, the city police were caught on camera vandalising two-wheelers on the city roads. Late this evening, the police had clashed with the students, who were trying to hold a solidarity march for their counterparts at Delhi’s Jamia Millia Islamia. In videos circulated from the Aligarh campus on social media, at least three policemen were seen injured as the students targeted them with stones.
The trouble started after news from Delhi, where a protest march by the Jamia students had gone awry, ending in a pitched battle with the police. Vehicles were set ablaze and vandalised and the police were targeted – by people the students said were outsiders who had joined the protest. Soon after, the police had entered the campus without clearance and detained around 100 students. The university said they had also assaulted the staff and the students.
