According to sources on 18 November, 2019, the Jawaharlal Nehru Students’ Union (JNUSU) organized a peaceful march towards Parliament on the first day of the Winter Session to protest against the hostel fee hikein Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU). Thousands of studentsfrom JNU, carrying placards and chanting slogans, participated in the march towards Parliament, demanding a total rollback of the hostel fee hike and withdrawal of the draft hostel manual which imposes dress codes and curfew timings. In response authorities imposed prohibitory orders both outside the parliament building and around the JNU campus, and set up barricades near Safdarjung Tomb in South Delhi to stop them from advancing any further. The protesters, who carried banners that read "save public education", "fees must fall" and "ensure affordable hostels for all", were stopped at multiple points on their march. The JNU administration had on 13 November, 2019 announced a partial roll back in the fee hike. However, the protesting students dubbed the move as eyewash and demanded that the JNUSU be treated as a stakeholder by the administration and the Ministryof Human Resource and Development. They also reiterated their demand for the resignation of the Vice-Chancellor on the university.The police authorities deployed ten companies outside JNU. The protesters were initially allowed to proceed but were stopped barely half a kilometer from the JNU campus by the police. Around 3.30 pm the students managed to reach Safdarjung Tomb near Lodhi Roadwhere they were stopped by the police again. The first round of lathicharge took place here. Over 100 students were detained by the Delhi Police and students suffered injuries after the police baton charged the protests. Students of Jawaharlal Nehru University allegedthat over 10 students, including the visually and physically challenged, were injured due to the "brutality" of police personnel. JNUSU president Aishe Ghosh, general secretary Satish Yadav and former JNUSU president N Sai Balaji were among several detained and allegedly taken to Delhi Cantt, Kalkaji and Badarpur police stations — where they claimed they were beaten up. Since students were not allowed to move theythen sat on the main roadat Safdarjung Tomb near Lodhi Road, singing songs, while negotiations between JNUSU and police continued. After around 6.30 pm streetlights were soon switched off and a second round of lathicharge took place, after which over 50 personnel escorted students to INA Metro station. Several students have reportedly been severely injured following the lathicharge by police. Following theprotest, videos surfaced showing personnel of the Delhi police beating up students, including girls, in a brutal manner. A particular video doing the rounds on social media shows a male student being forcibly led into a police vehicle while profusely bleeding from the head. Media reported that the Delhi police is going to lodge a First Information Report (FIR) against protesting students of the Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) for flouting Section 144 (which prevents unlawful assembly) of the Code of Criminal Procedure (CrPC), which was imposed in the area surrounding the university campus and the Parliament, to prevent students from joining the agitation on 18 November, 2019. It is pointed out that the state through police is in full action to suppress the voice of students protesting for a genuine cause which is subsidized education. The police through its modus operandi aretrying to repress a democratic movement. Manhandling of students by Delhi police including women and visually challenged (which is doing rounds of social media) amounts to being barbaric, committal of atrocity and show of excessive use of force. It is further said that the police has created a situation wherein the students protesting peacefully are being shownas rioting, gathering unlawfully and obstructing public servants from discharging their public function. This is nothing but just framing the students are exercising their constitutional right to assembly peacefully and right to protest for a cause.