The South-East district police have identified three more persons who were a part of the mob which attacked the 19-year-old Arunachali boy, Nido Tania. Earlier, the Delhi Police had detained two persons, including the shopowner. Various teams of the Delhi Police have been sent to Uttar Pradesh, Haryana and Punjab to trace the other accused. “The post-mortem report of Tania would be out on Monday which would reveal the exact cause of death and a clear picture would be achieved then,” said a police official.
Tempers ran high among Delhiites due to the incident as students from the North-East and various human activist groups organised a candle light vigil at Jantar Mantar. The Delhi BJP too staged a dharna seeking immediate action against the guilty who killed an Arunachal Pradesh student in the Capital.
Students at the Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) also staged a protest inside the campus. “We are waiting for the post-mortem report to come out. Monday onwards we will sit on a dharna until we get justice. This dharna is not just for Nido but for other pending cases as well,” said Tamag, former president, Arunachal Pradesh Students’ Union. Various other student wings are also planning to meet the Home Minister and the Prime Minister to speed up the process of investigation. The Home Minister has already directed the Delhi Police to submit a detailed incident report immediately.
Meanwhile, Delhi BJP president Vijay Goel in the party’s dharna at Jantar Mantar said, “I will be meeting Delhi Police Commissioner on Monday to demand for immediate action on this case.” leader of Opposition in Delhi Assembly, Dr Harsh Vardhan too said there was an urgent need to take steps to ensure that such incidents do not happen again. “The guilty of committing this crime should be brought to the book,” he said. Condemning the ‘barbaric’ act while staging the dharna, Goel said his party would pursue for justice to be served in the case.