NSUI President, Members Detained During Protest Seeking FIR Over ‘Assault’ on Women Workers

Security personnel detain NSUI workers during a protest outside the Parliament Street Police Station over the police not filing an FIR regarding an alleged assault on activists, in New Delhi.

The Delhi Police detained National Students' Union of India (NSUI) president Vinod Jakhar and several members during a protest at Parliament Street Police Station on Thursday over the alleged assault on its women workers, the Congress-affiliated student body claimed.

The NSUI said its members were staging a dharna demanding the registration of an FIR against a Delhi Police woman officer accused of assaulting its women members.

The organisation alleged that despite approaching senior police officials, including the Additional DCP on Wednesday, no FIR had been registered on its complaint.

Addressing the media, Jakhar alleged that NSUI women workers had been assaulted and claimed that some of them were taken to a dark room, where they were attacked with shoes and boots.

"We have come here only to seek the registration of an FIR, but the DCP is neither speaking to us nor listening to us. Is demanding justice for our women workers a crime?" he said.

NSUI national media in-charge Ravi Pandey condemned the alleged detention of Jakhar and other…

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