Topic: Jamia Millia Islamia

Delhi police, in a counter-affidavit submitted to the Delhi High Court, denied allegations of brutality on students of Jamia Millia Islamia in December last year, calling the claims 'utter falsehood'.

Twenty Five international organizations including Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch, and International Commission of Jurists wrote an open letter to India's Home Minister Amit Shah, demanding the immediate release of jailed rights activists and protesting students.

"I hope he would be allowed to call on Eid," laments Meeran's family who haven't heard from him since 4 May when he was connected for a minute.

Home Minister Amit Shah and the Delhi Police Commissioner need to understand the difference between a perpetrator and a victim, All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen (AIMIM) chief, and Hyderabad MP Asaduddin Owaisi said while criticizing BJP government and Delhi Police for arresting Muslim youths and students in the cases related with Delhi pogrom.

Police witch-hunting and imprisonment without trials, by charging UAPA, became the means for the government to arrest the movement.

Congress leader and former Union Home Minister P. Chidambaram has lashed out at the government for arresting Jamia Millia Islamia students and said that it is being done to create fear amongst the students so that they don't participate in any protests.