On Sunday, January 5, 50-odd goons entered the JNU campus around 6.30 p.m. and beat up students and professors, leaving at least 37 injured.

The scale of the attack was so intense that according to a DCP-level officer, "more than 100 calls were made to the police control room on Sunday evening, in which people begged for their life as the attackers went on the rampage."

The JNU Students Union president Aishe Ghosh was also received serious injuries on the head. Condemning this gruesome attack the Congress president said: “everyday campuses and colleges are raided across India, either by the police or lumpen elements with the support of the BJP government.”