Police and studentse in JNU campus, after some masked miscreants attacked the campus(PTI Photo)

NEW DELHI: The scene at the entrance of JNU ’s Sabarmati hostel told a chilling tale of the night of broken glass. A rusted iron rod still stood leaning on the entry door on Monday morning with shards of shattered window panes all around.

It was a foretaste of what lay inside. The hostel mess resembled a war zone, with all glass panes on the doors and windows broken in Sunday night’s attack. The men’s side of the hostel was full of broken glass pieces, from the ground to the second floor. There were marks on room doors which had been banged with sticks.

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One of the residents, who did not want to be named, said he had jumped from the second floor to escape the attack. “They were banging on the door and breaking glasses. They were all armed. I got so very scared that I did not even realise how I jumped out,” the student recounted. Miraculously, he was unhurt.

Wardens declared ‘out of bounds’

As videos of the violence inside the hostel went viral, two girls students recounted how they had stopped the miscreants from entering their side.

“They were coming towards the women’s wing. You will see the video of a girl with a rod/stick standing and talking. But we all stood together and started yelling and shouting. That is when they walked off,” said one of the residents.

“There were 60-70 of them who ran into the hostel and started breaking everything possible,” said another Economics student. “Forty two rooms in the hostel are completely damaged. Just the rooms with stickers of ‘ABVP’ on the door are completely untouched. It is baffling where the guards had vanished on Sunday when the students were being attacked.”

However, ABVP countered saying that the room of one of their office bearers in the same hostel had been ransacked.

In the hostel lawns, the masked miscreants had beaten up students and teachers.

On Monday, the warden (recreation) and senior warden of Sabarmati resigned on moral grounds, stating that they were not able to provide security to the students. So, the students pasted charts saying, “Ram Avtar Meena and Prakash Sahu declared out of bounds from Sabarmati hostel”.

While Sabarmati saw the most horrific side of the violence, there were stones pelting in Periyar hostel too.

A student said there were stones being thrown into the hostel as masked men entered it with sticks. The glass door of the guard room was broken.

