By Amna Mannan & Saqiba Khan & Mohsin Mushtaq
At least 15 students of Jamia Milia Islamia were detained – and later released – by the Delhi Police on Thursday, 13 February for staging a protest near the university’s central canteen. They were then served with suspension letters even as a list containing their names, along with other personal details, was allegedly displayed at the university gate.
The students were holding protests against the university’s recent disciplinary actions against two of its PhD scholars who led a protest in December 2024.
Mishkat Tehrim, a first-year MA Sociology student at Jamia, who was among the detained students, told The Quint, “We were not even present near the site where vandalisation of property took place, so their accusation is completely false. I was detained by the police and later got a suspension letter after I was released. Also, the suspension letter is dated 12 February, but I only received it on 13 February at 7 pm [after she was released].”
How the Protests Intensified
In December 2024, Jamia had denied permission to students to hold protests to mark the fifth anniversary of the anti-Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) protests and the police crackdown that had left several students fatally injured.
“15 December is marked as ‘Jamia Resistance Day’ by the students to remember the police brutality that took place in 2019,” said Saurabh Tripathi, a PhD scholar at Department of Hindi.
“Three days before organising this year’s anniversary, we messaged the chief proctor of the university to allow us to protest inside the campus. They denied the request outrightly.”
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