New Delhi (PTI): A DU teacher was allegedly slapped and assaulted by DUSU joint secretary Deepika Jha and other members of the Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad (ABVP) on Thursday, a group of faculty members said.

A video, purported to be of the incident, surfaced online, showing a teacher being assaulted by a group of students inside Dr Bhim Rao Ambedkar College in the presence of the police.

Several Delhi University teachers condemned the incident, calling it an attack on the dignity of educators.

A professor, requesting anonymity, said that a National Students' Union of India candidate who had won a college council election was allegedly thrashed by the members of the RSS-backed ABVP.

According to a statement by the Democratic Teachers' Front (DTF), the teacher, Sujit Kumar, who i

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