Several students clashed inside Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) campus on Sunday night. Members of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS)-affiliated Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad (ABVP) and the Jawaharlal Nehru University Students' Union (JNUSU) allegedly got into an argument over organising a programme at the student union hall in the campus. Police said they acted as soon as they received information about slogans being raised.
The ABVP and the JNUSU accused each other of attacking their members and injuring other students on Sunday night. An FIR has not been registered yet, police said.
According to Gaurav Sharma, the Deputy Commissioner of Police (DCP), South west district, after receiving a call police responded swiftly and a on reaching the spot police team did not find any quarrel taking place on the spot.
“On inquiry, it was learnt that heated arguments took place between two groups of students. Both sides are levelling allegations against each other of disrupting their meeting. Inquiry is on and action will be taken accordingly,” said the DCP.
According to a statement by the left student bodies, an organisation had booked the student union hall for November 14 -- the birth anniversary of the country's first Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru -- for a programme and had put up posters in this connection.
However, when the organisers reached the hall to begin their programme late in the evening, they found the place to be occupied by some 15 members of the ABVP.