By Amir Malik

A Students Federation of India (SFI) activist, also a Dalit, was hit on his head allegedly by an ABVP member on the night of September 5, on Thursday, during the presidential debate in the run-up to the Jawaharlal Nehru University Students’ Union ( JNUSU) election.

He was immediately taken to the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) where he was kept under observation till morning.

The injured Venkatesh Posagalla, an MPhil student from the Centre for Political Studies (CPS), is a native of Andhra Pradesh. He is the present vice-president of the SFI’s JNU unit.