JNU Profs move HC seeking directions to preserve WhatsApp data other materials

Delhi | Saturday | 11th January, 2020

Summary:

The professors who approached the Delhi High Court include Ameet Parameswaran, Atul Sood and Shukla Vinayak Sawant and their petition seeks necessary directions to the Delhi Police Commissioner and the Delhi government in this regard. The petition, filed through advocates Abhik Chimni, Maanav Kumar and Roshni Naamboodiry, also sought a direction to the Delhi Police to retrieve all CCTV footage of the university campus. Police said that all witnesses had claimed to not have shot any original footage of the incident and had shared the forwarded videos with them. The Delhi Police has also said that they have extensive dump data, which they are sifting through to further investigate the case and bring it to its logical conclusion. The police have also claimed to have identified nine people involved in violence on January 5, out of which one is injured JNUSU President Aishe Ghosh herself..