Delhi Police did not stop JNU violence on Centre's direction: Arvind Kejriwal

Defending the Delhi Police, Kejriwal claimed that they did not get orders from the Centre to stop the violent attack.

"What could the police do? If they get orders from the top not to stop violence, maintain law and order situation, what can the poor souls do? If they don't follow the orders, they will be suspended," Kejriwal said in a press conference, added the report.

On the evening of January 5, a group of unidentified masked goons attacked students and teachers inside Jawaharlal Nehru University campus when a meeting was being held by JNU Teachers' Association on the issue of violence on campus. The perpetrators also stormed into vandalised hostels. In the attacks JNUSU president, general secretary and around twenty students were injured and admitted to the AIIMS.

Many politicians and celebrities condemned the violence.

The incident triggered mass protests across the country against the police failure to control the attack as JNUSU president Aishe Ghosh claimed to have informed the policemen deployed in the campus about the build-up of unknown people within the JNU premises since afternoon on the day of the incident.

The left-controlled JNUSU and ABVP, the students' wing of RSS, have blamed each other for the violence.