Zee News camera captures man firing at anti-CAA protests in Delhi`s Jamia

NEW DELHI: Zee News on Thursday captured the video of a young man who opened fire on students protesting against the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) and the National Register of Citizens (NRC) in Delhi's Jamia area. According to the Delhi Police, the man who brandished a gun and opened fire in Jamia area has been identified as 17-year-old shooter.

He is a resident of Jewar area of Gautam Buddha Nagar District (Uttar Pradesh). 

Sharing more details of the incident, DCP Chinmay Biswal said, ''We have earlier warned the protesters that anyone can take advantage of the crowd and untoward incident can take place. We were vigilant and captured the man as soon as we saw him.''

Sharma had put up several posts on Facebook making his intentions clear that he would indulge in violence to "end" the Shaheen Bagh protests.

The shooter has written several posts on Facebook claiming that he would "end the protest" at Shaheen Bagh by January 31. The women and residents of Shaheen Bagh are protesting against the controversial CAA and the NRC for the past one month.

As the students were set to start their march from Jamia Millia Islamia to Rajghat, he took out a country-made .315 bore pistol and opened fire a student sustained an injury in his hand. 

Before opening fire, the youth had shouted, "If you people have to stay in India then you will have to say Vande Mataram, and now I am going to give you your freedom."

Even before firing the pistol, the youth was heard raising slogans of "Jai Shri Ram". While scrolling through his Facebook posts, it was found that the juvenile shooter went live a number of times from outside the campus of Jamia and made a number of posts in which he mentioned that he was a lone Hindu in the area and none of the mediapersons covering the protest were Hindus.

In one of his posts, he also asked the people to help his family in his absence and as a last wish, he wrote that his body should be wrapped in the saffron cloth and people should raise the slogan of "Jai Shri Ram" on his last journey.

In one post he also mentioned that he will avenge the death of Chandan Gupta, who died in firing while taking out a bike rally in Uttar Pradesh`s Kasganj two years ago.

In a January 28 post, he said that "everyone should take his Facebook profile seriously".

Meanwhile, the student who received a bullet injury has been identified as Shadab Farooq, a student of MA Mass Communication. He was shifted to Holy Family Hospital for treatment.