By TCN News,
Aligarh: Students of Aligarh Muslim University observed a protest march in the campus starting from Maulana Azad Library to Bab-e-Syed to register their protest against Delhi Police brutality unleashed on students on December 9, 2015.
The students of various universities across the nation took out a peaceful protest march to Parliament under the ongoing #OccupyUGCmovement against privatisation of education and scrapping of Non-Net Fellowships. During their peaceful march protestors were stopped by police personals, they were lathi-charged, water-cannoned and brutally beaten. Women students were manhandled, grabbed from their hair, groped and dragged barbarically.
“The students of Aligarh Muslim University stand in solidarity with the #OccupyUGC movement and strongly condemn the atrocities committed by Delhi Police on a peaceful protest march,” protesters said in a statement.
AMU students expressed their grievance, adding that this kind of barbaric treatment towards democratically protesting students in India is unfortunate and a matter of ‘national shame’ and need to be denounced from the office of the highest constitutional authority of India.
Students also appealed to the President of India to intervene into the matter as a supreme constitutional authority of India and the Visitor of the central universites to direct the government and concerned bodies to initiate a high level probe against Delhi Police atrocities on nonviolent, peaceful and democratic protestors. They also demanded the President to look into the anti-student policies being implemented across the universities and other institutes of higher learning in India and to restore true learning environment in all the temples of education.