The Delhi Police registered a first information report against six students of the Jawaharlal Nehru University on Sunday, a day after clashes broke out during a protest march to the Vasant Kunj North police station, reported The Indian Express.

Among those booked are Jawaharlal Nehru University Students’ Union president Nitesh Kumar, its vice president Manisha and general secretary Munteha Fatima.

The protest march was called by Left-affiliated members of the students’ union, who accused the Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad of “hooliganism” during a general body meeting held on Thursday at the university’s School of Social Sciences, according to the newspaper.

The Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad is the student wing of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh, the ideological parent of the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party.

Kumar had alleged that ABVP members physically assaulted him, held him hostage and shouted casteist slurs at him, reported The Times of India.

On the other hand, the ABVP claimed its members were subjected to “regional hatred” and physical assault.

The students’ union was marching to the police station to demand that an FIR be registered against ABVP members who allegedly attacked Kumar.

They claimed that the police had not taken any action despite multiple complaints, reported The Indian Express.

However, the police claimed they had “remained in continuous touch with the student leaders and ensured proper legal action”. Despite this, the union refused to withdraw its call for the march, they added.

“Around 6 pm, approximately 70-80 students, including female students, gathered at the West Gate of JNU,” The Indian Express quoted the police as stating. “Police barricades were placed to restrict their movement towards Nelson Mandela Marg.”

The police alleged that the students broke through the barricades and manhandled their personnel, reported The New Indian Express. This caused a temporary traffic disruption in the area.

Six police personnel – four men and two women – were injured in the clashes.

Following this, 28 students – 19 men and nine women – were detained.

Left-affiliated students’ groups have accused the police of brutality, claiming that those who had submitted complaints were detained, reported The Indian Express.

Kumar, Manisha, Fatima and three others were booked under Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita sections pertaining to obstructing a public servant in the discharge of their official duties, voluntarily causing grievous hurt to a public servant, assaulting or using criminal force against a public servant and criminal acts committed by several persons.

The police said the six students were “bound down”.

Persons are “bound down” when a magistrate requires them to execute a bond, with or without sureties, to keep the peace or to be of good behaviour for a specified period.

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