Jamia Millia Islamia hands over bag of shooter to Delhi Police

NEW DELHI: A day after a young man took out a gun and shot Jamia Millia Islamia student Shadab Farooq in his left hand at a protest march on Thursday, the Jamia administration handed over a red backpack believed to belong to the shooter to Delhi Police.
The proctor’s office surrendered the bag to a police team on Friday evening, which, in turn, handed the backpack and its contents to the Special Investigating Team of the Crime Branch probing the shooting.
Speaking to TOI, Jamia proctor Wasim Ahmad Khan explain how the university authorities had come across the bag. “One of our guards was given the bag by a student who had found it on the Jamia road. The guard brought it to our office,” said Khan. “When no one came to claim it, we looked inside and found a register with the name of the shooter inscribed on it, a participation certificate for a general knowledge competition, a few passport-size photographs of a couple, an accountancy textbook, a necktie of a Jewar school and a wallet.”
When the attention of the university’s administrative officials was drawn to the bag, they had opened it to find not only that its contents included books and certificates bearing the purported name of the shooter, but, according to sources, also a sheet of paper with the words ‘mandir wahin banayenge’ written on it. The sources disclosed that the sheet with the mandir slogan also had two saffron flags drawn on it.