Mumbai: Students hold midnight protest against violence in Delhi's JNU

Students from various colleges held a protest at Gateway of India on Sunday midnight to condemn JNU violence. Former JNU students Umar Khalid and Kunal Kamra were part of group which also held a candlelight vigil to show solidarity with JNU students.

Youngsters, mostly students from different city colleges, assembled on pavement across Hotel Taj near Gateway of India to condemn violence. It was an "impromptu assembly at a short tice,” a student said. Violence broke out at Jawaharlal Nehru University on Sunday night as masked men armed with sticks and rods attacked students and teachers and damd property on campus, prompting ministration to call in police which conducted a flag march.

At least 28 people, including JNU Students' Union president Aishe Ghosh, were injured as chaos reigned on campus for nearly two hours. Eyewitnesses alleged attackers entered premises when a meeting was being held by JNU Teachers' Association on issue of violence on campus and assaulted students and professors. y also barged into three hostels. Video foot aired by some TV channels showed a group of men, who were brandishing hockey sticks and rods, moving around a building.

Left-controlled JNUSU and RSS-backed ABVP blamed each or for incident.