The Delhi police department on Tuesday arrested ten people with the alleged connection with the protests carried out by the students of Jamia Millia Islamia University on Sunday that had erupted into the violent clashes between the students and the police. 

The police have said that these ten people aren't the students of the university and they have criminal backgrounds. By citing that no students have been detained, the police authorities refused to award the students with a clean chit. The reports say that the arrested people belong to Jamia and Okhla areas near the university. The arrest comes amidst the intensifying protests, deep anxiety, and uproar expressed by the students across the country against the implementation of controversial Citizenship Amendment Bill.

On Sunday, the clouds of Delhi had seen a huge outcry from the students of Jamia university after their peaceful march towards the parliament was barricaded by the police department that had seen a severe battle, suppression and the crackdown from the police to restrain the protests that had fueled the agitators to clash with Delhi police. The clash that was lasted for an hour had devasted about hundreds of two-wheelers and the mob torched and set ablaze at least three public buses and a fire truck. The massive violence had resulted in injuries for about dozens of students and police officials. 

The reports say that the two men, who were part of the protests, had been hospitalized in the government hospital of Safdarjung in Delhi with bullet injuries that had falsified the claim of the police by stating that they did not fire bullets at protestors. The Delhi police department has been accused of unleashing brutal crackdown against the students by entering the university without the consent of the management and upon entering the university, the police had detained about a hundred students on Sunday who were released in the wee hours of Monday at 3.30 am after the students from Jamia University, Delhi University, and JNU had staged their protests in front of the Delhi police headquarters to condemn the alleged suppression of police by detaining the students.

By responding to the heated accusations, the Delhi police department had said that the officials had stormed the university with the view of controlling the situation that has been deteriorating and on the other hand, Vice-chancellor of Jamia University Najma Akhtar had asserted to conduct a high-level inquiry into the alleged crackdown of the police inside the premises. As soon as the Delhi police nested under controversies of suppressing the voices of the students, it has ignited nation-wide protests from the students across the country.  The students of the reputed institutions took the streets to send their unity for the students of Jamia University.

The students of Aligarh Muslim University in Uttar Pradesh, the students of IIT Madras and elsewhere in the country, the students of Pondicherry University were some of the few institutions in which the students had united to voice their outcry. With the view of expressing solidarity to the students, Harvard University had addressed an open letter to the Indian government against the violent suppression of protestors. About a hundred students from Harvard University had accused the clashes between the students and the police and stated that the protests are inconvenient and disruptive, but they sustain the secular and democratic fabric of the nation.

In their letter, the students of Harvard stated that the violent suppression of protestors by the police, the use of teargas, lathi charges, and physical assault in response to peaceful dissent and the police forces entry into the premises of the university and the blockades of the internet are all deeply reprehensible.

The students across the nation from various institutions took to the streets for the past few days with the view of voicing against the bill where the students of Moulana Azad National Urdu University in Hyderabad staged a protest and most of the districts in the state of Uttar Pradesh were reportedly left under the clouds of uproar and the state government had stalled the internet services in six districts. The students from Aligarh Muslim University went for a series of clashes with the police on Sunday night that had resulted in injuries for at least 60 students following which the management of the university had suspended the classes till January 5th, 2020.

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