Delhi HC dismisses pleas for fresh probe into 2019 Jamia violence

The Delhi high court on Monday dismissed petitions seeking an independent probe into alleged police brutalities against students during the December 2019 violence at Jamia Millia Islamia. The court observed that police cannot be expected to remain “mute spectator” when a gathering turns violent.A bench of Justices Vivek Chaudhary and Manoj Jain said the police did not enter the university premises at the outset when the assembly was peaceful, but intervened after the situation outside the campus escalated and the crowd moved into the university.“The police intervention, therefore, has to be viewed in the prevailing law and order situation which had developed at that time,” the court said.‘Police cannot be expected to remain inactive’The bench said the right to peaceful protest was not in dispute.