42 Jamia students detained briefly during anti-CAB protest

Forty-two students of Jamia Millia Islamia University were detained briefly during anti-CAB protest. The protesters were persuaded to protest peacefully at the university and requested not to march towards New Delhi area.

New Delhi:Forty-two students of Jamia Millia Islamia University were detained and later released while 12 policemen were injured after police stopped students from marching to Parliament House to protest against the amended Citizenship Act.

The police used tear gas and forced to disperse the agitators, officials said.

The protesters were persuaded to protest peacefully at the university and requested not to march towards New Delhi area. However, they got agitated and aggressively confronted the police personnel, a senior police officer said.

They broke barricades and indulged in stone-pelting at police personnel, which also caused damage to vehicles parked there.

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Police had to lob tear gas shells and used force to disperse the protesters, police said.

Total 42 protesters were detained and subsequently released.

In this incident, 12 police personnel were injured and two of them with relatively serious injuries are under observation in ICU, the officer said.

Police also said that there was a scheduled protest at Jantar Mantar, but the number of protestors exceeded beyond the permissible number of 1,000. They were coming from different parts of the city to gather at Jantar Mantar and were advised not to proceed to Jantar Mantar.

In this process, some protesters who were coming from Central Delhi were stopped at Ranjeet Singh Flyover and dispersed peacefully after police persuasion, they added.