JNU students allege they were beaten up by police

New Delhi: The JNU Students Union (JNUSU) on Monday alleged that a Delhi Police assaulted its vice president at a police station here after it staged a protest near Jammu and Kashmir Bhawan against the rape and murder of an eight-year-old Kashmiri girl.

The student's body alleged that the police lathi-charged the students who were protesting peacefully.

The students were taken to Tuglak Road Police Station and a woman constable dragged JNUSU vice president Simone Zoya Khan inside a room and beat her up, it alleged. "A police constable locked the room from outside," the JNUSU said in a statement. Additional Commissioner of Police (New Delhi) BK Singh, however, said the JNUSU statement was concocted, malicious and aimed at taking mileage.

"Rather VP assaulted women police on duty. They were not at all peaceful and disciplined. They scaled police barricade, blocked traffic and indulged in unruly behavior," Singh said in a statement.