JNU Violence: Yogendra Yadav Claims He Was Attacked Thrice by Mob and Police, Tweets Videos as 'Proof'

New Delhi, January 6: With the miscreants creating rampage and vandalising property inside the Jawaharlal Nehru University, Swaraj Abhiyan chief and an alumnus of JNU Yogendra Yadav on Sunday night claimed that he was attacked thrice while he was protesting at the gate against the attack on students and professors. Yadav even claimed that even an inspector -- Shiv Raj -- pushed him outside the trauma centre of AIIMS.

Expressing his angst against the high-handedness and being pushed the police outside the JNU gate and AIIMS trauma centre, Yadav took to Twitter and wrote three tweets in chronological order of being attacked and pushed. He mentioned that he was attacked thrice -- a) at around 9:30 pm while he was speaking with JNU teachers, b) 10:50 pm in which he was kicked on his face and c) 12:30 am when he was pushed outside trauma centre in AIIMS in presence of ADCP. JNU Violence Update: Over 42 Students, Professors Injured in Attack by Armed Masked Mob, MHA Asks Delhi Police to Take Strict Action; No Arrests Yet

Here are the chronological tweets by Yogendra Yadav:

1)

Tonight I was assaulted thrice.

1st: APX 9:30 pm.

while speaking to JNU teachers, a police inspector (no nameplate) dragged me and ABVP/RSS group (incl Prof Mishra, Sanskrit Dept) pushed me,pulled my muffler. I fell down, minor injury. Police contd to push me out after I got up.

— Yogendra Yadav (@_YogendraYadav) January 5, 2020

2)

2nd:10:50 pm.

I was with D Raja when 20-30 goons attacked me, kept abusing, shoving, hitting me & team (despite our singing national anthem). I fell on my back on road divider (soft tissue injury, no fracture), then kicked in my face (eye bruise). Police watched. DCP came later.

— Yogendra Yadav (@_YogendraYadav) January 5, 2020

3)

3rd: 12:30 am

Outside Trauma Centre, AIIMS. When I arrived for check-up and MLC, outside emergency, Inspector Shiv raj hit my colleague Raja and my driver and then pushed me (in the presence of ADCP

Parvinder Singh) despite knowing I was a patient.

AIIMS staff was very good.

— Yogendra Yadav (@_YogendraYadav) January 5, 2020

Following this too, Yadav accused the JNU vice-chancellor M Jagadesh Kumar for presiding over the intellectual as well as physical destruction of the university. He also alleged that the police, who went to control the law and order situation, were just standing and did nothing to control it.

Here are the videos that Yogendra Yadav retweeted:

At the main gate of #JNU calls for "desh drohi vaapis Jao" by evidently right wing crowd which is also jostling about @_YogendraYadav. Media colleagues, those of you who mainstreamed 'Tukde Tukde', this shameful coarseness is also on you tonight #JNU pic.twitter.com/FSJsdr63e8

— barkha dutt (@BDUTT) January 5, 2020

Another eye witness https://t.co/ch9i8cp7Lx

— Yogendra Yadav (@_YogendraYadav) January 5, 2020

This clip from 2nd assault.

Just after this my team and I started singing Jan Gan Man. We stood still, but goons who were earlier shouting Bharat Mata ki Jai, kept attacking, shouting, abusing. https://t.co/Ajx4mBTdp2

— Yogendra Yadav (@_YogendraYadav) January 5, 2020

In the meantime, Union Home Ministry has asked the Delhi Police Commissioner to take appropriate action against the guilty and ordered an inquiry to be carried out by a Joint CP level officer. He also sought a report regarding the same to be submitted at the ministry soon.

Also, protest march in solidarity with JNU is being organised where over 42 students and teacher were beaten by masked armed mob on Sunday. Though no arrest have been made so far, police have confirmed that they would soon FIRs based on the received complaints.

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