Lawyer N.D. Pancholi, who represented Afzal Guru, lodged a complaint after lawyers attacked journalists and JNU students. Speaking with this newspaper, he said that his junior, also a lawyer, was brutally attacked and his cellphone was snatched. “They were lawyers who attacked my junior and snatched his cellphone. He was attacked as he was trying to save journalists,” Mr Pancholi said.

Controversial Hindutva leader Sadhvi Prachi also visited JNU to express solidarity with ABVP members. The varsity administration denied that she had been denied entry into the campus. In the evening, some students lead by JNUSU joint secretary, Saurabh Kumar Sharma, a member of the ABVP, held a candlelight march against the JNUTA decision to join the strike.

The varsity condemned the attack on its teachers in Patiala House court. “We condemn the attack on the teachers. Let the law take its course. Any sort of violent activity against anybody is condemnable,” JNU registrar Prof. Bhupinder Zutshi, said. The JNU Teachers’ Association on Monday decided to join the students’ strike from Tuesday.

The administration needs to answer how it plans to mend the damage done due to mishandling of the issue by it,” JNUTA president Ajay Patnaik said.