Jamia shooting: Delhi court sends 17-year-old gunman who fired at anti-CAA protesters to 14-day protective custody
The 17-year-old youth who fired a shot at students of the Jamia Millia Islamia university during an anti-Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) protest on Thursday, was sent to 14-day protective custody by a Delhi court on Friday. Earlier on Friday, the shooter was produced before the Juvenile Justice Board, PTI reported.
-
On Thursday, protestors and police personnel faced off against each other near the university after the youth fired a pistol at a group of anti-CAA protesters, injuring a student
-
An FIR under Section 307, the charge of attempt to murder, was filed against the gunman and he was taken in for questioning, police said
-
Shahdab Farooq, the injured student from Kashmir, was discharged from the AIIMS trauma centre on Friday morning after he underwent surgery for the injury
The 17-year-old youth who fired at students of the Jamia Millia Islamia university during an anti-Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) protest on Thursday, was sent to 14-day protective custody by a Delhi court on Friday.
The youth was earlier produced before the Juvenile Justice Board, PTI reported.
Delhi Police sources told NDTV the shooter showed "no remorse for his actions", that he had been influenced by social media, TV coverage and WhatsApp videos, and he wanted to create panic at Shaheen Bagh. "He did not know how to get to Shaheen Bagh. An auto driver dropped him off at Jamia and told him he could not go to Shaheen Bagh as the road is shut. He told him to walk it," a police officer told NDTV.
The shooter at the Jamia Millia Islamia university on Thursday. PTI
On Thursday, protesters and police personnel faced off near the university after the youth fired a pistol at a group of anti-CAA protesters, injuring a student before walking away while waving the firearm over his head shouting "yeh lo aazadi".
An FIR under Section 307, the charge of attempt to murder, was filed against the gunman and he was taken in for questioning, Devesh Shrivastava, Joint Commissioner of Police, said on Thursday.
Shahdab Farooq, the injured student from Kashmir, was discharged from the AIIMS trauma centre on Friday morning after he underwent surgery for the injury to his left arm on Thursday night. "His father reached Delhi on Thursday night, but Shahdab won't go back home in Kashmir. He will stay at the university," Al-Ameen, a friend of Farooq's said.
Farooq, who received bullet wound on his left hand, was earlier admitted to AIIMS. No injury to blood vessels or nerves were sustained, a doctor was quoted as saying by PTI.
The incident caused outrage across society, with Opposition leaders, journalists, activists, and citizens accusing the Delhi Police of inaction after photos and videos emerged of the force standing some yards behind the youth.
However, Praveer Ranjan, the Special Commissioner of the Delhi Police said that the incident happened in a "split second" which is why the police "couldn't react immediately".
With inputs from agencies
also read
An Oral History of the COVID-19 Crisis: 'The pandemic has magnified pre-existing prejudices and problems'
This account is part of Firstpost’s Oral History Project of the COVID-19 Crisis in India. The Oral History Project aims to be an ongoing compendium of individual experiences of the pandemic, with a focus on one significant day in our respondents’ lives during this time.
COVID-19 news: Don't panic, adequate stock of oxygen available, says Centre; India records 3.5 lakh new cases
The statement came on a day that India recorded 3,52,991 new COVID-19 cases and 2,812 new deaths, according to the Health Ministry's 8 am update.
Shift Siddique Kappan to RML hospital in Delhi from Mathura jail; Supreme Court tells UP govt
After his recovery, he has to be sent back to Mathura jail, where he is under custody in a UAPA case on the allegation that he was trying to create communal unrest in UP after the Hathras gangrape-murder crime.