Facing criticism, Delhi police probe attack on students at elite university

Students said police had failed to act, leaving them at the mercy of the mob.

More than 30 people injured were admitted to the All-India Institute of Medical Science in the capital, a hospital official said, most of them with lacerations, cuts and bruises.

Authorities faced criticism for failing to rein in the violence on a campus viewed a centre of resistance to Modi’s policies, including the abolition last year of special status for Muslim-majority Kashmir. “I...hang my head in shame after witnessing video clips of goons merrily entering JNU campus, creating mayhem and grievously injuring innocent students, damaging public property and then exiting the campus,” Rahul Mehra, a lawyer for the Delhi police, said on Twitter.Even medical teams trying to help the injured were attacked, said Harjit Bhatti, former president of the resident doctors’ association at the All India Institute of Medical Sciences.

Critics say the Modi administration is trying to crush dissent as it advances a Hindu-first agenda that undermines India’s foundations as a secular democracy.

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