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#Jamia matters to be heard by the Chief Justice's Bench of Delhi High Court soon. Senior Advocate Colin Gonsalves mentions the matter concerning the release of detained students which was transferred from the Single Judge Bench.
CJ DN Patel says it would be taken up.

Counsel says the police entered into the campus. One student has suffered gunshot injury which the police has denied, One student has lost his eye.
#JamiaMilliaIslamia #CAA_NRC #CAASupport #Section144

Counsel refers to reports and photographic evidence to show that the police entered the campus. Police fired tear gas shells. @DelhiPolice

Delhi High Court begins hearing the plea seeking a fact-finding committee into the #Jamia incident. #Section144 #CAA_NRC

Counsel seeks an appropriate enquiry by a retired Supreme Court or High Court judge, and a direction to restrain the police from acting against the students. #CAA_NRC #JamiaMilliaIslamia #Jamia

This court has to decide what is that emergency situation the police sought to avert. Their action was atrocious , counsel for petitioner Manoj Dhiryan.
#JamiaMilliaIslamia #JamiaProtests #Jamia #JamiaProtestsCAB

Court takes up the third matter. Senior Advocate Sanjay Hegde begins submission.

The court has to determine what kind of fair inquiry needs to be taken into the incident, Hegde
#JamiaMilliaIslamia #Jamia #Section144

Delhi police entered both the mosque and the library. Was there trouble in the hostels and the toilet which justified the Police actions, Hegde

Hegde Seeks setting up of a commission under the aegis of a retd Judge who is conversant with Delhi situation and has credibility #JamiaMilliaIslamia #Jamia

Court may take judicial notice of the fact that the situation is still not normal. There are apprehensions on both sides. If there are any arrests, immediately the University has to be informed, Hegde
#JamiaMilliaIslamia #Jamia #JamiaProtestsCAB #Section144

Beating up should be the last resort, we cannot have resort to weaponry at the first instance, Hegde

Court takes up the next matter. Senior advocate @IJaising begins

Issue is how do we maintain balance between right to protest + free speech and maintaining law and order. Nobody is in favour of violence, Jaising
#JamiaMilliaIslamia #JamiaProtests

The situation is a subject matter of investigation. It is a matter of fact finding as per Supreme Court. An appropriate committee should be appointed for that purpose, Jaising

All of us would like to see peace restored in the city and the country. Peace requires confidence builing measures. Let them show this is what they want and not quell lawful protests, Jaising

My concerns are unregulated arrests of students. Lawyers can take care of themselves. When students got arrested, had it not been for some citizens who visited police stations at night, students would still be in police stations, @IJaising #JamiaMilliaIslamia #Jamia

What has happened has happened behind the walls of a gated University..neither the VC not Proctor granted permission to Delhi Police to enter the campus, Jaising
@IJaising @DelhiPolice

Students cannot protect themselves against police brutality. There is undoubtedly beating of a severe nature. It cannot be said to be use of proportioned force, Jaising

This is not one of those cases where one person is before you against an FIR. Here there are students and the State on the other hand and vulnerablity lies with the students, Jaising

To the best of my knowledge, no FIR has been registered against the Delhi Police, Jaising @IJaising #JamiaMilliaIslamia #Jamia

Colvin Gonsalves actually entered where the students were and saw them cry. Is this due process and the meaning of law and order? @IJaising

Jaising seeks orders similar to the ones which were passed in the Tis Hazari matter by the High Court in November.

There are documented cases of injuries suffered by students but a single case not been registered, Jaising.

We will oppose the inclusion of a member of Delhi Police in the Commission, Jaising

This is what I considered to be the way forward, says Jaising as she reads HC's order protecting lawyers from coersive action in the Tis Hazari case.

FIR has been registered against students and unknown persons and they may keep adding people, Jaising.

Court rises for lunch.

Bench assembles. Court resumes hearing in pleas concerning violence at #Jamia #CAAProtest

I would like the court to pass an order of "no victimization" against someone who gives info to the police, this is an elementary measure for victim protection, Jaising @IJaising #Jamia #CAAProtest #Section144

Jaising bats for protection of identity of students who appear before the Committee, Jaising

Even if police enters, police cannot carry firearms in a University. That is not the way to control law and order, Jaising

The University has closed their doors. it has rendered the students homeless. There has to be adequate accomodation for these students till they return home or find a safe haven, Jaising #JamiaMilia #JamiaProtest #Jamia #CAAProtest #Section144

One last appeal that i make to the learned SG, when i was appointed ASG i was told that i was an amicus to the court. Don't take a stand which is adversarial.

Court takes up the next case. Senior Advocate Colin Gonsalves makes submissions

#CAA_NRC #CAASupport #Section144

Colin Gonsalves begins.

This was a peaceful march. The main attack was on totally unarmed students, Gonsalves

There was no rioting. It was a totally wrong impression, Gonsalves gives a sequence of events. #Jamia #CAAProtest #Section144

Students were to march to the Parliament. As they left, the police attacked.., Gonsalves

After the examinations were called off, the students urged the VC to not postpone them. (Later) there were attacks in the library, girls hostel, boys hostel, mosque, Gonsalves
#Jamia #CAAProtest

You may not believe the students but you will believe the Chief Proctor. Refers to the Proctor's and VC's statement on police attacks on students and faculty.

#Jamia #CAAProtest #CAA_NRC #Section144

Gonsalves refers to a news report on the VC's statement post-Jamia Violence

This is the most significant attack on students and minority students since independence, Gonsalves

#Jamia #CAAProtest #CAA_NRC #Section144 @ColinGonsalves_

@ColinGonsalves_ Gonsalves: Shows the pictures of injured students
SG Mehta: Are you sure these pictures are from Jamia? Are you sure?
Gonsalves: Yes, I am sure.

#Jamia #CAAProtest #CAA_NRC #Section144 @ColinGonsalves_

@ColinGonsalves_ Gonsalves shows the Court

1)a picture of a senior Delhi Police officer attacking a student who was lying on the ground.
2) a video of police personnel carrying a bottle inside a bus.

This was right before the burning of the bus, Gonsalves

#Jamia #CAAProtest #CAA_NRC

@ColinGonsalves_ Gonsalves shows another video of police damaging the bikes. This was done to show that the agitators did it.

This entire petition along with the CD was given to the SHO, Jamia Nagar PS and he said 'we'll see'.

#Jamia #CAAProtest #CAA_NRC #Section144

@ColinGonsalves_ Gonsalves:

My first prayer is register an FIR, Gonsalves
The parents are anxious. We want a list of all who were detained. Even today several 100 from Jamia were detained.

#JamiaProtests #CAAProtest #CAA_NRC #Section144

@ColinGonsalves_ The student who had his head cracked, his mother was there.. I was there at the police station and the mother requested the @DelhiPolice police to let her take him for medical care later.

(After a while) they took him away to the next room while the mother kept crying-Gonsalves

@ColinGonsalves_ @DelhiPolice Gonsalves:

1) seeks medical assistance for injured.
2) criminal proceedings against students to be kept in abeyance
3) Preserve the CCTV footage. This is the most important that will show who is right and who is wrong
4) A court-monitored committee of SC or HC Judge
#CAA_NRC

@ColinGonsalves_ @DelhiPolice If VC chooses to run the University, police can't tell them to send their students home. Reopen University if the VC runs the University.

They wanted no more protests. That was the core issue. There were no incidents of rioting, Gonsalves

#CAA_NRC

@ColinGonsalves_ @DelhiPolice Senior Advocate Salman Khurshid addresses the Court.
I appeal on behalf of everyone that we need to now mend whatever has happened, Khurshid. @salman7khurshid

@ColinGonsalves_ @DelhiPolice @salman7khurshid Khurshid narrates a "historic moment" from 1946 when then VC Zakir Hussain addressed a gathering during that time of turmoil.

"Let us not ask who lit the fire, let us now douse that fire"

This is about a University that has come in a crossfire between disagreements.

@ColinGonsalves_ @DelhiPolice @salman7khurshid Senior Advocate N Hariharan begins for another petitioner seeks safeguarding of evidence in the case.

At least two medical certificates suggested that one was shot at and one suffered an eye injury, Hariharan.

@ColinGonsalves_ @DelhiPolice @salman7khurshid In our times, when there were demonstrations, a warning is giving when the line is crossed.

Was there a warning in this case? Hariharan

@ColinGonsalves_ @DelhiPolice @salman7khurshid Delhi HC issues notice to Centre, Delhi Police, directs them to file their affidavits.

Senior Advocates seek interim protection from coercive action for students.

Bench rises.

@DelhiPolice #CAA_NRC #CAASupport

Senior Advocates seek interim protection from coersive action for students. Bench rises.

Court room bursts in chants of SHAME!SHAME! as the Judges leave.

Matter to be heard next on February 4.

Couple of young lawyers in Chief Justice's Court burst into tears. Seniors in the profession console them saying they would move the Supreme Court.