A group of people hit me, my action was ‘natural’: BJP MLA OP Sharma

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“When I objected to their slogans, they hit me and ran away. I and some other people then started chasing them and, thereafter whatever happened yesterday is before you as evidence,” Sharma said.

He claimed that the picture of a person, who wore a jacket and beat up some persons, was not his, but TV channels and newspapers were naming him for it.

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“When someone will beat me up, the possible natural action that could be followed is what happened in this incident…Unknown people who were shouting in favour of Pakistan, were creating a wrong atmosphere. They should go there. Why they are residing in India,” he said.

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Yesterday, violence broke out in the court premises when groups of lawyers attacked journalists, students and teachers of JNU and unidentified people in and outside the court dubbing them as anti-nationals in the wake of a raging row over the arrest of a student leader of the university.

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The violence took place when JNUSU president Kanhaiya Kumar against whom a sedition case has been filed was to be brought before metropolitan magistrate Lovleen for remand proceedings but was later taken elsewhere.

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