 Sunday, December 15 late afternoon, news breaks on violent clashes between police and youths and students protesting against the Citizenship Amendment Act in Delhi's Jamia area. What followed was a series of violent attacks and detentions through the evening and early Monday morning. As these developments took place, the social media started getting flooded with different reports about the events, some true and some unverified. But what really happened? At 2.30pm, over a thousand people, including students and locals from Jamia, took out a community march in opposition to the New Citizenship Amendment Act or CAA. The marching students went from the nearby areas of Zakir Nagar and Bhatla House and moved to Shaheen Bagh, shouting slogans in opposition to the act. This march would have proceeded to parliament. At 4.30pm in Jamia, the march was stopped by the police who latte charged the protesters and fired tear gas shells against them. Some of the protesters were accused of torching at least two buses, but this information is yet to be verified. All those who were marching were latte charged and hit with tear gas by the Delhi police. At 6pm, after several clashes, the police pushed the students back towards the university. The cops surrounded the campus, barricaded the gates and entered the campus, firing tear smoke shells. At 6.20pm, tear gas bombs were thrown in the library and the mosque, where students were taking shelter from the violence, leading to many students being severely injured. At 7.35pm, Jamia Chief Proctor Vaseem Ahmad Khan gave out a statement saying, the police entered by force, no permission was given, our staff and students are being beaten up and being forced to leave the campus. Police denied all claims of any shots being fired. After 7.30pm, the CRPF began allowing the students to walk out of the campus in small groups with their arms raised. Around the same time, some students said, they saw 11 boys and two girls being taken away by the police in a bus while being beaten. Around 8.30pm, several students, teachers and lawyers gathered at Kalkaji police station where many Jamia students were being held, many of whom were injured and required medical attention. The police were not allowing anyone to enter. At 9.00pm, responding to the brutal violence by police on the protesters, over 250 people from across the city gathered outside the old Delhi police headquarters at ITO and blocked the road, demanding the release of the detainees and the removal of security forces from the campus. In other cities too, students of different universities took out solidarity marches to show their support to Jamia and raise their voices against the brutal misuse of power by the police. Meanwhile, violence erupted in Aligarh Muslim University where students were protesting against CAA and in solidarity with the people of Jamia. Over 50 students were injured and many arrested. At midnight, after pressure from social activist Harsh Mandar and his team of advocates, the Minority Commission issued an order to SHO of Kalkaji police station demanding immediate release of the detained students. At 3.30am, after over 6 hours, the protest at ITO was finally called off when the police released all the students who had been detained earlier in the day without any access to lawyers. Over 12 hours of chaos in the capital of the country, students beaten and harassed. Police using brute force on students for protesting, leaders from various opposition parties giving statements joining the protest. With all this underway, here is what the prime minister has to say. The Citizenship Amendment Act 2019 was passed by both houses of parliament with overwhelming support. Large number of political parties and MPs supported its passage. This act illustrates India's centuries old culture of acceptance, harmony, compassion and brotherhood. A government that seeks to throw out an entire community of people from this country by not granting citizenship to only Muslims. What is this acceptance, harmony and brotherhood the PM is talking about?