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On Tuesday, Ravi Kumar Singh, DCP Southeast, had told The Indian Express that the scuffle occurred astir 7:30-8 p.m. adjacent gross 7. (File)
Hours aft a scuffle broke retired Tuesday nighttime astatine Jamia Millia Islamia (JMI) erstwhile a radical of students were holding Diwali celebrations connected campus, astir 100 sanitation staffers were denied introduction by the constabulary arsenic they gathered extracurricular the Centenary Gate to observe Valmiki Jayanti Wednesday morning.
“They stopped america astatine the gross and didn’t let america to observe wrong the field adjacent though we had taken anterior support from the assemblage administration,” said Rakesh Kumar Valmiki (47), a sanitation unit astatine the varsity.
However, a elder constabulary serviceman told The Indian Express that the workers didn’t person support to instrumentality the idol inside: “They are the employees of the assemblage and had support to observe inside… But since they had nary support to instrumentality the idol wrong the campus, we had to halt them astatine the gate.”
Kumar, who has been moving astatine JMI for the past 24 years, claimed that got support to publication the Conference Hall successful FTK Centre for Information Technology from 10.30 americium to 1 p.m. to organise Valmiki Jayanti. “We person been celebrating the Jayanti for the past six years wrong the campus, but this twelvemonth they didn’t let america to spell inside… We waited astatine the gross with Valmiki ji’s idol… Proctor sir came astir 11.30 americium and told america to not instrumentality the idol wrong the premises… we abided and peacefully celebrated the juncture present astatine the gate,” the sanitation idiosyncratic said.
On Tuesday, Ravi Kumar Singh, DCP Southeast, had told The Indian Express that the scuffle occurred astir 7:30-8 p.m. adjacent gross 7. “A radical of students affiliated with the ABVP were putting up diyas and making rangolis for Diwali, which displeased different radical of students. The different radical wrecked the decorations, which led to a scuffle. Both sides engaged successful sloganeering. Police were deployed to support the peace; they were stationed determination for the nighttime arsenic a precautionary measure. Students were ordered to disperse and the assemblage near by 9 pm.”
The Indian Express had reached retired to officials astatine JMI regarding the incidental but did not person a response.
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