JNU: 2 FIRs registered on night of mob attack over previous incidents, varsity complaints had named Aishe (Eds: With more inputs)

As a mob went on a rampage in JNU, two FIRs were filed by Delhi Police on the night of January 5, within a span of few minutes, after taking cognisance of complaints filed by JNU authorities naming office bearers of student union including its injured president Aishe Ghosh in connection with alleged vandalism on premises on previous days.

The general diary reference in police records showed the FIRs were registered at 8.44 pm and 8.49 pm on complaints filed by the varsity's security department on January 3 and January 4 respectively. These were related to alleged incidents of vandalism on January 1 and January 4 respectively.

 

Incidentally, this was also the time when police had been called in to restore law and order in the university and several injured students, including Ghosh, were rushed to hospital.

Ghosh or any students' union office bearer's name does not figure in the accused column of the FIRs though they were named in the complaints.

Police said the two FIRs were transferred on Tuesday to the Crime Branch, which is also probing the Sunday violence

JNUSU Vice President Saket Moon alleged that the administration is selectively targeting some students and denied their involvement in the vandalism of server room.

The FIR based on the January 3 complaint, which has the name of JNUSU leader Aishe Ghosh and seven others, pertains to allegedly threatening and assaulting the staff and chasing out the staff when they were undertaking winter semester registration.

The complaint states that on January 1, a group of students using masks on their faces forcibly entered the office of the Center for Information System switched off the power supply evicted all the technical staff working there and made the serves dysfunctional.

"They obstructed and stopped the public servants from doing their duties. They pushed threatened abused and chased the staff out of the office and server room this is a clear cut case of vandalisation of an administrative unit of the university," the complaint alleged.

The other complaint also names Ghosh, JNUSU Vice President Saket Moon and 18 others. According to the second FIR, the Central for Information System (CIS) office was closed down during the whole night of January 3 and 4.

"Since the entire registration process was halted due to the lockdown of the CIS office, an effort was made by the CIS staff with the help of JNU security guards to open the office at 6 am of January 4.

At this time, the students, including Ghosh and Moon, "indulged in physical violence, pushed the lady guards, verbally abused them and threatened them with dire consequences, if they would open the lock of the CIS office", the complaint alleged.

A few security guards were also beaten up by agitating students and they were injured, it said.

"They illegally trespassed the university property with the criminal intention to damage to the public property once inside they damaged the serves and made it dysfunctional and severely damaged the fibre optic cables power supplies and broke the biometric systems inside the room," the complaint alleged.