Times of India journalist Raj Shekhar Jha tweeted a video clip of Delhi Police’s Joint Commissioner Devesh Shrivastav appealing to students inside Jamia Millia Islamia campus to not throw bottles and pelt stones on the police force.
Watch this clip. Joint commissioner Devesh Shrivastav appealing to Jamia students to stop pelting stones and Molotov cocktails. Calls them ” bachchon and beta” .. Don’t demonise the cops while you are blinded in hatred. There is good and bad everywhere. pic.twitter.com/1dyATBAgms
— Raj Shekhar Jha (@rajshekharTOI) December 17, 2019
In the video one can hear him refer to the students inside Jamia as ‘beta’ and ‘bachcho’ (Hindi for children). He informs them he is outside gate no. 7 and requested the ‘bachcho’ to not pelt stones and throw bottles at the police force. He then said how it is not right to throw stones at them like this. He appealed to the students to stay inside the campus and not come out.
Aapke beech Jo ye galat ladke pahuche hue hain.. lagatar pathtar tube light bottle fek rahe Hain.. aap baat karein.. This is how joint CP Devesh Shrivastav was appealing for peace and trying to warn the students about the anti social elements amongst them. 10 nabbed today. pic.twitter.com/TpVZlQAVeP
— Raj Shekhar Jha (@rajshekharTOI) December 17, 2019
In another clip he could be heard saying that the police force is being continuously attacked by stones, bottles, tubelights but they are there for the safety and security of the students.
After the Citizenship Amendment Act was passed, few protests broke out of which some turned violent too quickly. After West Bengal, the protests reached Delhi’s Jamia Nagar where mischief mongers set buses on fire and resorted to violence. Police had to use force to control the situation.
