New Delhi:

Three members of a left-wing college students’ union have been detained by the police and lessons have been suspended at Delhi’s prestigious Jamia Millia Islamia college on Wednesday a plan to display the controversial BBC documentary on Prime Minister Narendra Modi on the mass communication division this night.

Police in blue riot gear and vans with tear-gas cannons reached the gates of the school in southeast Delhi. In an order issued on Tuesday, authorities at Jamia had stated they won’t enable any unauthorised gatherings on campus after the College students Federation of India introduced the screening on Fb.

The documentary, based mostly on Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s tenure as Chief Minister of Gujarat in the course of the 2002 riots, has kicked up a storm with the federal government banning the movie and asking social media firms to take down hyperlinks to it. The opposition has slammed the transfer as blatant censorship.

An analogous screening organised by a bit of scholars on the Jawaharlal Nehru College final night bumped into trouble as each web and electrical energy went out within the college students’ union workplace. A crowd of a whole bunch as an alternative huddled collectively exterior at nighttime to observe the documentary on telephone screens or their laptops, and the night ended with a protest march. The JNU authorities had warned of disciplinary motion if the documentary was screened, saying the transfer may disturb peace and concord on campus.

PM Modi’s authorities has labelled the two-part documentary sequence ‘India: The Modi Query’ as a “propaganda piece”. He has been cleared of any wrongdoing by investigations into the Gujarat riots. Final yr, the Supreme Courtroom rejected an enchantment in opposition to his exoneration in one of many circumstances linked to the killings.

Over 1,000 individuals have been killed within the three-day violence in Gujarat in 2002 and the state police confronted grave prices of not doing sufficient to cease the riots that started after a practice coach carrying pilgrims was burnt in Godhra, killing 59 individuals.