‘Dear Legal Expert’: IPS officer slams Javed Akhtar over his tweet on Jamia protests

Team Udayavani, Dec 17, 2019, 3:05 PM IST

Mumbai: The Passage of Citizenship Amendment Bill (CAB) in both the Houses has created a lot of unrest with nationwide protests in India. Jamia Milia Islamia University students staged a protest which soon turned violent when police entered the campus leading to chaos.

A Hindi news channel reported that the students of the university misbehaved with their correspondents and even posted a video about the same.

CAB and Jamia University protests soon became trending topics on twitter. A Twiter user, Hemir Desai tweeted about the video by the Hindi news channel on December 16 and tagged personalities like Javed Akhtar, Farhan Akhtar, Arfa Khanum Sherwani, Barkha Dutt, Rahul Gandhi, Priyanka Gandhi, and Rajdeep Sardesai.

Jamia students attacking Media who is showing them Mirror of their Peaceful Protest. Anti National Journalist n Secular ppl like @Javedakhtarjadu @FarOutAkhtar @khanumarfa @BDUTT @RahulGandhi @priyankagandhi @sardesairajdeep will not Condemned this. These are Urban Terrorist https://t.co/rLwPCC5ywb

— Hemir Desai (@hemirdesai) December 16, 2019

In reply to the tweet, Javed Akthar said that according to the law of land, under any circumstances police cannot enter any university campus without the permission of the university authorities. He also added that by entering Jamia campus without permission the police has created a precedent that is a threat to every university.

His tweet created a lot of buzz in twitter as Twitterati responded to his tweet including IPS officer, Sandeep Mittal, and another police officer Pranav Mahajan mocking his legal knowledge.

Dear Legal Expert
Please elaborate the law of land, the section number and name of the Act etc so that we are also enlightened.
Regards

— Sandeep Mittal, IPS (@smittal_ips) December 16, 2019

Sir ur tweet is
•legally incorrect
•factually wrong
•reflects bias
•indulges in fearmongering
•demoralises who protect law
•sheltering who break law
•provocative
•subjective
I request u to pls go thru again wht u hav written & then delete this one.

Regards.

— Pranav Mahajan (@pranavmahajan) December 16, 2019