Thirteen students, detained for organising a screening of a controversial BBC documentary

The police are yet to release 13 students who were detained for organizing a screening of the controversial BBC documentary on the 2002 Godhra riots at Jamia Millia Islamia on Wednesday. India Claimed.

There was no immediate response from the Delhi Police on Thursday’s claim of the leftist student’s body.

The government recently directed social media platforms to block links to a documentary titled “India: The Modi Question”. The Ministry of External Affairs has dismissed the documentary as a “propaganda piece” that lacks objectivity and reflects a colonial mindset.

Hundreds of students were detained on Wednesday as they gathered outside the university gate to protest the detention of four members of the Students’ Federation of India (SFI), hours before a proposed screening of the documentary.

The SFI claimed that the police released most of the detained students on Wednesday evening, while 13 were still in custody.

The SFI on Wednesday announced a demonstration of ‘India: The Modi Question’. The students’ organization had said that the documentary would be screened at lawn gate number eight of MCRC on Wednesday at 6 pm.

Four of the 13 – SFI Jamia unit secretary Aziz, SFI South Delhi region vice-president Nivedya, and SFI units members Abhiram and Tejas – were detained on Wednesday morning, it is alleged that they are all Jamia Millia Islamia students . Four students were taken into custody on Wednesday morning. It has been more than 24 hours since he was taken into custody. The rest were taken into custody later in the evening,” Pritish Menon, secretary of the SFI Delhi Committee.

The varsity became the epicenter of an uproar on Wednesday after the SFI’s plan to organize a screening of a controversial BBC documentary was foiled by the university and the city police.

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