The protest at Delhi University’s Arts Faculty on Friday, February 13, 2026, a forum to debate the UGC Equity Regulations rapidly turned into an alarming spectacle of targeted violence and chaos.
Ruchi Tiwari , a Journalist and Youtuber who was there to report the protest said that the crowd became aggressive very quickly and that she was endangered. The problem started when the people in the crowd began to doubt and question her identity. She says that as soon as she gave her full name and Brahmin Caste, A group of about 500 people who surrounded her started a very harsh caste-discriminatory attack.
She was physically attacked, her hair was pulled, and her clothes were torn. More horrifying were apparently the threats whispered by women in the mob, who supposedly said things of rape and threatened to parade her naked.
According to Tiwari, they were either trying to kidnap her or lynch her, but thanks to the students of the Law Faculty and the police she managed to escape.
“They wanted to parade me naked. My clothes were torn. I was touched inappropriately. All this because I am a Brahmin.”, Testimony of Ruchi Tiwari.
Very different stories coming from the same incident have divided the university community.
On the one hand, the ABVP blames the event on Left activists as a “preplanned attack on the fourth pillar of democracy.” On the other hand, the AISA tells a totally different story that the Tiwari is the one who started a fight, they have accused her of pushing a Bahujan YouTuber first and coming to the campus with a deliberate plan to provoke the crowd and spoil their peaceful program.
While factions continue throwing blame at each other, the DUSU President Aryan Maan has appealed for an unbiased investigation so as to keep the university’s image unspoiled. The legal authorities have now stepped in to solve the matter, with Delhi Police filing two concurrent FIRs under Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita (BNS) concerning offences of voluntarily causing hurt and assault with the intent to outrage modesty.
As Vice Chancellor Yogesh Singh demands boosting security, the National Human Rights Commission has also intervened in the case, to make sure that the probe is both fair and thorough.
