Citizenship Act stir: Police action in Jamia Millia University unwarranted

It is alleged that they entered the library, hostels and even went inside washrooms to beat up the students at random. The police excesses were even visible in Aligarh Muslim University, which also witnessed protests against the Act on Sunday. In videos doing the rounds on social media, policemen can be seen vandalising and damaging public property and vehicles. Jamia Millia Islamia Vice-Chancellor Najma Akhtar has said the university will lodge an FIR against the police for entering the campus without permission. The police must register a case against themselves, identify the erring officials and arrest them to send a clear message to the rank and file that they cannot take the law into their own hands. In the meantime, the least the police can do is transfer some of the high-handed policemen, order a departmental inquiry into the incident, and try and hold a meeting with the students and university authorities in order to clear the misunderstanding. But unfortunately, all the Delhi Police have done until now is to close ranks and even justify the action. If such is the brazenness of the police, it is not surprising why the men in khaki remain among the most untrustworthy, feared and loathed. DailyhuntDisclaimer: This story is auto-aggregated by a computer program and has not been created or edited by Dailyhunt. Publisher: The New Indian Expresshttps://disqus.com/by/raajdenenews/