A day after 36 students and faculty members sustained injuries in violence that erupted on Sunday night at Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU), scores of students on Monday demanded that guilty should be booked and punished. Some students following the violence said they just wish to go home.
Several students were also seen leaving the campus. A student, Pancham, who did not reveal her last name, said she was leaving the hostel because her parents feared for her safety.
Students with anger and fear alleged that the attack could not have happened without the connivance of the administration and police. Akarsh Ranjan from Periyar hostel said students have received threats that they should not come out from their rooms.
Shreya Ghosh, a resident of Shipra Hostel, asked how goons could enter the campus with rods and sticks. She claimed that she had to hide in Sabaramati Hostel after the masked men chased her and some other people.
A Kashmiri student, requesting anonymity said, he was also chased by the mob along with other students and he had to jump from the first floor of the hostel to save themselves.
"We were 3-4 friends inside a room. Suddenly, some of our friends came running and said, 'The ABVP is coming with lathis and rods'. We latched the room but within a few seconds, they started banging on it with lathis. They also broke glass windows on top of the door. Scared, we opened the balcony door and jumped from the first floor. Otherwise they would have killed us," the student said.
Surya Prakash, a visually challenged student, said he was scared after being attacked in Sunday's violence.
"They came to my room and beat with me rods. I told them I am blind but they continued the assault. I have been hit badly and I will have to go for an X-ray. I'm scared after yesterday's violence," Prakash said.
Mallika Sinha, a computer science student from Nepal who lives in the Yamuna Hostel, said she received a call from her parents asking her to leave the campus.
At the entrance of Sabarmati Hostel, the premises was littered with shards of window panes and some students were seen clearing the debris. The hostel mess was also damaged in the violence on Sunday evening when masked mob had gone on a rampage, vandalising property and attacking the staff and students, including the JNUSU president Aishe Ghosh. The mob also entered two other hostels — Periyar and Koyna — where they took to vandalism.