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In Pictures: Students On Street As Campuses Seethe Over Jamia Crackdown

Unrest over the police crackdown in Delhi’s Jamia Millia Islamia and the controversial Citizenship Amendment Act rippled in angry waves through the country on Monday with demonstrations in several campuses, including in Hyderabad, Lucknow and Mumbai. The morning after violence broke out in the national capital, thousands of students across India took to the streets demanding a probe into the use of teargas inside the Jamia library as well as police entering the campus without permission from university authorities. There was heavy police presence in university campuses. (Photo Credit: PTI)

News Nation Bureau | Updated : 17 December 2019, 12:39:25 PM
In Pictures: Students On Street As Campuses Seethe Over Jamia Crackdown

In Pictures: Students On Street As Campuses Seethe Over Jamia Crackdown

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Thousands of members and workers of AASU staged protest against the Act. (Photo Credit: PTI)

In Pictures: Students On Street As Campuses Seethe Over Jamia Crackdown

In Pictures: Students On Street As Campuses Seethe Over Jamia Crackdown

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Unrest over the police crackdown in Delhi’s Jamia Millia Islamia and the controversial Citizenship Amendment Act rippled in angry waves through the country on Monday with demonstrations in several campuses, including in Hyderabad, Lucknow and Mumbai. The morning after violence broke out in the national capital, thousands of students across India took to the streets demanding a probe into the use of teargas inside the Jamia library as well as police entering the campus without permission from university authorities. There was heavy police presence in university campuses. (Photo Credit: PTI)

In Pictures: Students On Street As Campuses Seethe Over Jamia Crackdown

In Pictures: Students On Street As Campuses Seethe Over Jamia Crackdown

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Students from the Tata Institute of Social Sciences (TISS) in Mumbai also protested on the streets shouting slogans. (Photo Credit: PTI)

In Pictures: Students On Street As Campuses Seethe Over Jamia Crackdown

In Pictures: Students On Street As Campuses Seethe Over Jamia Crackdown

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Hyderabad Central University students held a protest march post-midnight in solidarity with the Jamia students and demanded that their exams be postponed. (Photo Credit: PTI)

In Pictures: Students On Street As Campuses Seethe Over Jamia Crackdown

In Pictures: Students On Street As Campuses Seethe Over Jamia Crackdown

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Students of Visva-Bharati University at Birbhum also protested against the violence at Jamia Millia Islamia. (Photo Credit: PTI)

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