A number of mediapersons were attacked during the clashes between students belonging to the Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad, the Delhi University Students' Union and Leftist student organisations at the University of Delhi on Wednesday, 22 February.

Attackers hurled bricks, stones and glass bottles at protestors near Ramjas College. According to information available so far, five journalists found themselves caught in the midst of this, and were also assaulted.

According to Aditya Menon, Associate Editor, Catch News, who was one of the mediapersons assaulted, the attack began at around 2 pm. Shehla Rashid, the former vice-president of the Jawaharlal Nehru University Students' Union, was surrounded by seven attackers, two of whom were women. The attackers were pulling her hair.