JNU attack: Injured professor files complaint against unknown person

NEW DELHI: In the aftermath of violent attacks in Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU), Sucharita Sen, a professor in the Centre for Study of Regional Development, has filed a complaint against unidentified persons with the police on January 6.

The complaint addressed to Station Head Officer (SHO) of Vasant Vihar, gives a detailed account of the events that unfolded on Sunday, January 5.

Dozens of men and a few women, with their faces covered, entered the JNU premises on Sunday evening and assaulted students and teachers. Sen was one of the severely injured faculty members. She sustained an injury on the head and had to be taken to the All India Institute of Medical Sciences.

Describing the incident, the complaint says: “Persons, some masked and with covered faces, had congregated within the JNU campus with lathis, bricks, stones and other deadly weapons which would be sufficient to cause death or grievous injury in the normal course of events.”

A medical diagnosis report of Sen attached with the complaint suggests “laceration at the temporal region, abrasion in left elbow”.

“The mob of persons...unleashed violence that was never previously witnessed by me in my (experience of) almost 30 years at the university,” Sen wrote in the complaint.

‘Premeditated Act’

Several hostel rooms, classrooms and cars on campus were damaged in the commotion. Highlighting the damage of public and private property, Sen wrote, “ University and private property, including my own car, was also vandalised and damaged,” Sen has also alleged that the act was carried out in a “premeditated manner”.

Her colleague, Bikramaditya Kumar Choudary, had earlier told Careers360: “I went to the North Gate to write a complaint with the security but they had me running around here and there. When I talked to the security I found that no one was assigned for shift C (at the time of the attack) so that no one was accountable.” Choudhary is an assistant professor in the School of Social Sciences.

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