India's top sportspersons condemn mob attack on JNU students

India’s leading sports personalities, including Gautam Gambhir and Rohan Bopanna have condemned the violence by masked goons on students and professors of the Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) on Sunday.

Strong-arm tactics burst forth inside the JNU campus on Sunday late evening after unidentified men equipped with sticks and stones ambushed scholars and teachers and vandalized property on the campus, leading the administration to call in police which conducted a flag march.

"Such violence on university campus is completely against the ethos of this country. No matter what the ideology or bent of mind, students cannot be targeted this way. Strictest punishment has to be meted out to these goons who have dared to enter the University," Gambhir tweeted.

Former Indian cricketer Irfan Pathan stated that this kind of incidents do not help the nation’s public conception.

"What happened in JNU yesterday is not a regular incident. Students being attacked by armed mob inside University campus, in hostels, is as broken as it can get. This isn't helping our country's image," Pathan tweeted.

Former French Open mixed doubles champion Bopanna wrote: "Horrific and shameful what has happened in #JNU , The people responsible for these must be punished."

India's shuttler Jwala Gutta also tweeted a couple of times.

"Are we all gonna be still quiet?? Watch this happen to our students?? Why the guilty ones weren't caught and charged?? Why were they escorted out of the university?".

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