Delhi Police Identifies 37 People In WhatsApp Group Linked to JNU Mob Attack: Sources

The Delhi Police has identified as many 37 people, who were part of the WhatsApp group linked to the JNU mob attack, sources told News Nation on Saturday. The screenshots of the reported conversation between the members of the WhatsApp group - ‘Unity Against Left’ – had gone viral shortly after the shocking attack on the JNU students inside the campus on January 5. Now, sources say the Delhi Police has identified the members of this very group. Sources say that out of these 37 people, 10 were ‘outsiders’. The Delhi Police probe has revealed that the students of warring factions had taken ‘help from the people outside’. Sources say that the JNU students had facilitated the entry of outsiders in the campus. Hence, the security agency deployed for JNU security is also under scrutiny.

Delhi Police Presser

On Friday, the Delhi Police released photographs of nine suspects, caught on the CCTV camera, in relation to the violence that took place in Delhi's Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) on January 5. While Delhi Police named several students who were involved in the attack and vandalism in server room on Sunday afternoon but gave few details on the attack by the masked mob on students and teachers later. Delhi Police clarified that these were just first findings and more information will be released as investigation progresses.

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Delhi Police named Chunchun Kumar, Pankaj Mishra, Aishe Ghosh, Waskar Vijay, Sucheta Talukdar, Priya Ranjan, Dolan Sawant, Yogendra Bhardwaj and Vikas Patel. Aishe Ghosh is the president of the JNU students' union while Yogendra Bhardwaj and Vikas Patel are said to be members of the Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad (ABVP). Bhardwaj is said to be administrator of WhatsApp group 'Unity Against Left'. DCP (Crime Branch) Joy Tirkey, who is leading the SIT probe, case, said a majority of the students wanted to register for the winter semester from January 1 to 5, but the left-leaning students' bodies were not allowing them to do so.

Questions To Delhi Police

However, on Saturday JNUSU general secretary Satish Chandra Yadav posed a series of questions against the Delhi Police’s claims. “Why is DP silent about Sabarmati attack? One masked goon, Komal Sharma, a ABVP activist, has been identified. The truth has been established by. Why DP is silent about it,” Yadav asked.

“What is Delhi Police's explanation abt d viral video footage on hw Delhi Police cn be seen escorting & giving safe passage to d masked, lathi wielding marauders out of JNU, instead of arresting or even interrogating them… The @DelhiPolice has named & framed students who hv been protesting against fee hike since last 75 days. Their identity is well known. Police shud hv 'unmasked' the masked goons. Bt sadly has implicated the protesting students, who r in the open since 75 days (sic),” Yadav said on Twitter.