NEW DELHI: JNUSU president Aishe Ghosh has sought registration of FIR against her attackers with the charge of attempt to murder, but is yet to record her statement with the Delhi Police’s Crime Branch that is investigating the case.
“I am filing this complaint for the incident in which a mob conspired and acted with common intention to assault, intimidate and attempt to murder me, and request you to register an FIR and apprehend culprits at the earliest,” she wrote in her complaint.
The injured JNUSU president added she would be able to identify one of her attackers whose face was not concealed.
Later, a senior police officer conceded that cops were struggling to identify the culprits because eyewitnesses didn’t name anyone; the videos could not be used as evidence as they needed to be authenticated by an FSL team, and the mobile location of all the students at the time of the incident was the hostels that they resided in.
“As for outsiders, mobile location will be a vital clue in proving their involvement but as of now we haven’t been able to identify them.”
"We have spoken to multiple people, but both the parties — be it ABVP or the Left — haven’t named anyone,” the police officer added.
In her complaint, Ghosh said that on Sunday, she received information about those affiliated to ABVP along with unidentified armed men and women had gathered at Ganga bus stop. “I along with Nikhil Mathew who was also present there, were surrounded by a group of that mob, most of whom were wearing masks. The mob of 20-30 people dragged me behind a car standing near the 24X7 (canteen) and surrounded me and despite my pleading did not let me go and attacked me with rods while I had fallen down.
I remember that one of the persons was of medium height, wearing a brownish-red sweatshirt with ‘UCLA’ written on it. I saw his face as he was facing me and did not have a mask on and can identify him if I see him,” she said in her written complaint.
Aishe said that she was attacked by the group who hit her on the head multiple times. When she fell down, she was kicked and hit with a rod on her hand, body, head, chest and back, she said, adding that Mathew tried to save her but he was also attacked. “The intention of the group of men and their acts was definitely to murder me...,” she wrote.
ELEVEN COMPLAINTS
The police have received 11 complaints in connection with the incident on January 5. Out of these, one complaint has been lodged by a professor while the other complaints have been lodged by the students, they said.