The dean asked Prof Mishra to record the ruckus by students on the phone. This is where things turned ugly. “When I started recording, a student told to me “aapka intezaam karna padega”.

This same student has earlier also threatened us saying “JNU ke baahar bhi duniya hai" and "saari zindagi courts ke chakkar lagane padenge".

In a veiled threat, he told us ‘SLS mein dekhe the kya hua tha’. He was referring to sexcual harassment charges filed against some professors by the students. Prof Mishra has narrated the whole incident in an official mail to his dean and other colleagues for the record.

Abhinav Prakash Singh, a faculty of economics at the prestigious Shri Ram College of Commerce, was shocked when he saw his photo on one of the posters in JNU, branding him the university’s traitor. Singh is an alumnus of JNU but hasn’t visited the campus for a long time.

“I was shocked to see posters accusing me as an ‘architect of violence’. I have no idea as to why I was targeted. I have no connection with what’s happening inside JNU for over five years and haven’t even visited the campus for more than a month. I suspect I am targeted because I am a vocal critic of the Left politics. Even in JNU, I was an open critic of the Left. Perhaps this is how they are trying to intimidate me into silence,” Singh says.

He has been relentless in bringing the other side of the violence on social media — the one perpetrated by the Leftists. His tweets explaining the chronology of the violence — first by the Leftists to which the Right retaliated — and videos shared by him of the Leftists indulging in violence have gone viral.

But such harassment is nothing new in an institution like JNU. Singh did his masters from the university and is well aware of the way those who don’t conform to Leftist politics in the campus are treated.

“Personal targeting, fake cases and slandering have been the standard Left-wing tactics against activists of opposing party. But this is perhaps for the first time an unrelated person has been targeted. I feel police must investigate and arrest all those involved. Because it’s not just me but they are running a similar campaign against a poor paan wala located outside the campus. It’s a law and order issue,” Singh says.

The paan wala he refers to is Sanjay Chaurasia, who runs a small shop outside the main JNU gate, across the road. Some Left students have been circulating messages on WhatsApp to boycott him economically.

“Sanjay Chaurasia helped to identify jnu students to the mob, provoking Sanghi goons standing near north gate to attack students (sic),” reads a WhatsApp forward. Prima facie, this allegation appears to be bizarre as the violence took place inside the hostels was far away from his shop, which is not even in the campus.

Chaurasia is scared of the way he is being hounded.

“All these are lies. I had shut shop and left for home before 8 pm as the villagers from nearby villages had gathered here and ordered me to down the shutter. My whole business runs due to JNU students. I have no reason to do any such things,” he says.