Under the banner of "Reclaim Jamia," students strongly condemned the brutal crackdown students unleashed by Jamia administration and Delhi police on February 14. On that day, at 5 in the morning the administration along with varsity’s security guards and Delhi police illegally picked up around 20 students from the protest site and taken to undisclosed location. Both male and female students were dragged from their sleeping spaces by their legs and hair, forcibly removed from the premises, and shoved into police vehicles. These students, including several AISA activists were part of the on-going protest movement in the campus against the disciplinary actions against university students-activists Saurabh and Jyoti. These two students, along with several others were targeted by the university administration for organising an event in December last year to commemorating the violent state-crackdown on anti-CAA movement in 2019. Since then, the protests had been ongoing in campus condemning the Jamia administration’s attack on campus democracy.
The whereabouts of twenty students taken away by Delhi police were only known in the evening after sustained student and civil society pressure. Later, in the eventing the students were released from detention. On the very next day, in an attempt to intimidate protesting students, the administration publicly pasted the names, photos, phone numbers and addresses of these students in the campus.
The students presented a memorandum outlining their key demands, which include:
Revocation of the FIR, suspensions, and proceedings of the disciplinary committee against all dissenting students.
An immediate end to the issuance of show-cause notices to students exercising their fundamental rights to protest, organize, and express themselves peacefully.
Revocation of all show-cause notices issued to students for raising their voices.
Repeal of the Office Memoranda dated August 29, 2022. and November 29, 2024.
An end to the witch-hunt against students for expressing dissent.
For withdrawal of the notice penalizing postering and graffiti on Jamia walls.
