Last updated: January 26, 2023, 6:11 PM IST
Thirteen students arrested for organizing a screening of a controversial BBC documentary. (Representative Image)
There was no immediate response from Delhi Police to the allegation of the body of the leftist student on Thursday.
Thirteen students, detained on Wednesday for staging a showing of a controversial BBC documentary about the 2002 Godhra riots in the Jamia Millia Islamia, have not yet been released by police, the Indian Student Federation has claimed.
There was no immediate response from Delhi Police to the allegation of the body of the leftist student on Thursday.
The government had recently ordered social media platforms to block links to the documentary titled “India: The Modi Question”. The State Department has dismissed the documentary as a “propaganda piece” that lacks objectivity and reflects a colonial mindset.
Dozens of students were detained on Wednesday as they gathered outside the university gates to protest the detention of four members of the Students Federation of India (SFI) hours before the proposed screening of the documentary.
While police released a majority of the detained students on Wednesday night, 13 remain in custody, the SFI claimed.
The screening of “India: The Modi Question” was announced by the SFI on Wednesday. The student’s outfit had said that the documentary would be shown at MCRC lawn gate number 8 at 6 p.m. on Wednesday.
Of the 13, four – SFI Jamia Unit Secretary Azeez, SFI South Delhi Area Vice President Nivedya, and SFI Units members Abhiram and Tejas – were detained on Wednesday morning, it alleged, adding that they are all students of the Jamia Millia Islamia . “Four students were arrested on Wednesday morning. It has been more than 24 hours since they were detained. The rest were detained later in the evening,” said Pritish Menon, secretary of the SFI Delhi committee.
The university became the focus of a row on Wednesday after SFI’s plans to host the screening of the controversial BBC documentary were thwarted by the university and city police.
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