Students from communist student organisations gathered to the Students' Union office to see the BBC documentary on the 2002 Gujarat riots in defiance of stern warnings from the JNU administration.
In order to prevent the students from using the projector set up in the student union office to show the documentary, the JNU administration also turned off the electricity in the area of the office.
By placing jammers there, internet services were also interfered with. Despite this, all of the students in attendance watched the pre-downloaded documentary together on their laptops and smartphones.
At the same time, other students used mobile internet to download the documentary even after leaving the JNU campus.
Notably, the JNU Students' Union had scheduled a documentary screening at its office on Tuesday night at 9 p.m.
However, when electricity was turned off near the student union headquarters, the plan to stage the screening was foiled.
Students who watched the documentary claimed that Vidyarthi Parishad activists stoned them. The student government has refuted this, though.