Protest at AIIMS, students assaulted

A group of people today staged a protest at AIIMS here demanding suspension of a PhD student, who has been accused of rape, and assaulted some students when they were asked to stop the demonstration.
The AIIMS administration has filed a complaint with the police demanding that an FIR be lodged against the protesters.
According to the complaint, around 45-50 unknown persons assembled outside the Jawaharlal Nehru Auditorium around 11.45 AM and started shouting slogans against the AIIMS authority.
"Some of them were wearing Aam Aadmi Party's trademark caps. They were holding placards stating 'AIIMS protecting rapist' and demanded suspension of the concerned PhD student from the department of Lab Medicine. These protesters were joined by another group of 25 persons who started stopping patients and employees moving on hospital premises," said AIIMS administration sources.

"One of them threatened of possible rape on some girl students and asked them to be ready to face acid attack," the complaint said.
Later in the afternoon, when some PhD students were going to a class, they saw the banners and requested the agitators to remove them when the protesters physically assaulted the students including girls who were injured. The security staff who intervened were injured too.

"AIIMS administration condemns this kind of hooliganism by these people who entered the hospital premises and created a rackus hurting not only the students and also hampering the patient care activities.
And the cause for which they were protesting, AIIMS has little control over it as the case is sub-judice and the student concerned has alreday completed his research work and is about to submit his PhD thesis," said AIIMS spokesperson Dr Amit Gupta.

According to the sources, two policemen who later had reached the venue to control the crowd were also injured.