JNU missing student row: Twitterati agitates against Delhi Police manhandling female protester

On Monday a picture of a JNU student being manhandled by Delhi Police while trying to quell the protest near India Gate, has sparked outrage on social media. The photograph which caught everyone’s attention on social media is that of a female protester grabbed and taken aside by a male Delhi cop. The picture was taken by a photographer of a popular daily and has received a variety of reactions from ’twitterati’. Some have condemned the act of ‘police manhandling’ while some have condemned the revelation of the identity of the protester.  Some even pointed out that ‘female cops should be deployed to handle female protesters’. The protester was present at the rally taken out at Jantar Mantar by students of Jawaharlal Nehru University against alleged administrative inaction in the disappearance of 27-year-old student Najeeb Ahmad.

Care to explain @DelhiPolice which police manual allows this. Pix via @timesofindia pic.twitter.com/DRDRo0FNcx

— bhavatosh singh (@bhavatoshsingh) November 7, 2016

Many condemned the police cop, demanding his suspension.

Is this Delhi Police? How can this cop grope a female student. Is he out of his mind! Please immediately suspend him. @CPDelhi pic.twitter.com/MpyF3wjyGX

— Swati Maliwal (@SwatiJaiHind) November 7, 2016

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How can anyone justify this? 😡 #Justice4Najeeb: Police Manhandle, Detain Missing JNU Student's Mother During Protest https://t.co/yogUEOXfWQ

— Raghu Ram (@tweetfromRaghu) November 6, 2016

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shame on Modi Police

— sharaf (@sharafuMayyil) November 7, 2016

Despicable @DelhiPolice! But perhaps expecting any action against this man is too much. https://t.co/ri7xeED0wA

— Rupashree Nanda (@rupashreenanda) November 7, 2016

Some questioned the procedure followed.

I saw this pic and i was shocked...usually women police are deployed to handle female protesters. Delhi police at it again. https://t.co/vy0Zck6azT

— Shabbir Ahmed (@Ahmedshabbir20) November 7, 2016

Others asked questions about the ethics of the photograph. @SwatiJaiHind u posted her photo w/o blurring her face?? has she agreed to the use of this photo? @CPDelhi — Saileena (@saileenas) November 7, 2016

@ArvindKejriwal @DelhiPolice @bhavatoshsingh dear all please respect this girl student and don't share her pics like this

— Pratik bhavsar_jprocks (@Pratik_JP) November 7, 2016

However the police denied any misbehavior on their part. “During protest by JNU students today, none have been manhandled. A group of JNU students along with Najeeb’s mother assembled near Archaeological Survey of India building. They were persuaded not to move towards India Gate. They didn’t agree and were adamant to move ahead. They all were taken into a bus to Mayapuri police station. Fatima Nafees was duly attended to by lady Police officers and dropped at her place of stay,” a police statement said.

News Update: pic.twitter.com/vSIEP1rg28

— Delhi Police (@DelhiPolice) November 6, 2016

Najeeb Ahmad, 27-year-old, a student of School of Biotechnology and a native of Badaun in Uttar Pradesh, went missing on 15 October following an on-campus scuffle allegedly with the members of ABVP the night before. Following his disappearance, Delhi Police and JNU students got into a tussle when the latter were protesting at Jantar Mantar against alleged administrative inaction on the part of the university, where the police allegedly roughed up and detained all of the 300 protesters including Ahmad’s mother, Fatima Nafees, according to an earlier _Firstpost_ report. With inputs from PTI