

{"id":55895,"date":"2020-01-10T19:25:57","date_gmt":"2020-01-10T13:55:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/?p=55895"},"modified":"2020-01-12T10:36:00","modified_gmt":"2020-01-12T05:06:00","slug":"investigating-the-masked-woman-photographed-during-jnu-violence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/investigating-the-masked-woman-photographed-during-jnu-violence\/","title":{"rendered":"Investigating the masked woman photographed during JNU violence"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Late in the evening of January 5, a mob wielding sticks and iron rods stormed hostels of Jawaharlal Nehru University, Delhi. Most individuals who were a part of the mob had their faces covered. Soon after, videos and images of the incident began doing the rounds on social media. In the video below, several masked individuals can be seen inside a hostel.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Horrible videos coming out from JNU. In this, a horde of alleged ABVP goons unleashing terror inside Sabarmati hostel, JNU.<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/JNU?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#JNU<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/CAA_NRCProtests?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#CAA_NRCProtests<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/YZNxtcvKut\">pic.twitter.com\/YZNxtcvKut<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Asim Ali (@AsimAli6) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AsimAli6\/status\/1213826265662283776?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 5, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>One of the individuals was alleged to be Komal Sharma, a member with RSS-affiliated ABVP&#8217;s Delhi chapter. A Facebook user <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/story.php?story_fbid=874615399660657&amp;id=100013366153568\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">claimed<\/a>, <em>&#8220;The girl who is found on multiple videos vandalising JNU Girls Hostel is Komal Sharma. She is from Delhi University ABVP unit.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<div class=\"fb-post\" data-href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/singhreetam\/posts\/874615399660657\" data-width=\"500\" data-show-text=\"true\">\n<blockquote class=\"fb-xfbml-parse-ignore\" cite=\"https:\/\/developers.facebook.com\/singhreetam\/posts\/874615399660657\"><p>The girl who is found on multiple videos vandalising JNU Girls Hostel is Komal Sharma. She is from Delhi University ABVP&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Posted by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/singhreetam\">Reetam Singh<\/a> on <a href=\"https:\/\/developers.facebook.com\/singhreetam\/posts\/874615399660657\">Sunday, 5 January 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<h2>Expos\u00e9 by a school senior<\/h2>\n<p>An Instagram user Anuja Thakur <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/B6-aGNIgZzT\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">posted<\/a> a screen recording of an Instagram conversation with a person whose name on the platform reads &#8211; &#8216;komal\u2764sharma\ud83d\ude0e ABVP \u2764\ufe0f&#8217;. The corresponding username being &#8217;26_saravashisth&#8217;. Thakur claimed that the conversation was with Sharma, the woman alleged to be part of the mob. In the screen recording which has an audio clip, Sharma is confirming her presence in the campus during the incident. Alt News was unable to access the said Instagram account as it may have been deleted or deactivated.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"instagram-media\" style=\"background: #FFF;border: 0;border-radius: 3px;margin: 1px;max-width: 540px;min-width: 326px;padding: 0\" data-instgrm-captioned=\"\" data-instgrm-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/B6-aGNIgZzT\/?utm_source=ig_embed&amp;utm_campaign=loading\" data-instgrm-version=\"12\">\n<div style=\"padding: 16px\">\n<div style=\"flex-direction: row;align-items: center\">\n<div style=\"background-color: #f4f4f4;border-radius: 50%;flex-grow: 0;height: 40px;margin-right: 14px;width: 40px\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"flex-direction: column;flex-grow: 1;justify-content: center\">\n<div style=\"background-color: #f4f4f4;border-radius: 4px;flex-grow: 0;height: 14px;margin-bottom: 6px;width: 100px\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"background-color: #f4f4f4;border-radius: 4px;flex-grow: 0;height: 14px;width: 60px\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"padding: 19%0\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"height: 50px;margin: 0auto12px;width: 50px\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"padding-top: 8px\">\n<div style=\"color: #3897f0;font-family: Arial,sans-serif;font-size: 14px;font-style: normal;font-weight: 550;line-height: 18px\">\n<p>View this post on Instagram<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"padding: 12.5%0\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"flex-direction: row;margin-bottom: 14px;align-items: center\">\n<div>\n<div style=\"background-color: #f4f4f4;border-radius: 50%;height: 12.5px;width: 12.5px\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"background-color: #f4f4f4;height: 12.5px;width: 12.5px;flex-grow: 0;margin-right: 14px;margin-left: 2px\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"background-color: #f4f4f4;border-radius: 50%;height: 12.5px;width: 12.5px\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"margin-left: 8px\">\n<div style=\"background-color: #f4f4f4;border-radius: 50%;flex-grow: 0;height: 20px;width: 20px\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"width: 0;height: 0;border-top: 2pxsolidtransparent;border-left: 6pxsolid#f4f4f4;border-bottom: 2pxsolidtransparent\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"margin-left: auto\">\n<div style=\"width: 0px;border-top: 8pxsolid#F4F4F4;border-right: 8pxsolidtransparent\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"background-color: #f4f4f4;flex-grow: 0;height: 12px;width: 16px\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"width: 0;height: 0;border-top: 8pxsolid#F4F4F4;border-left: 8pxsolidtransparent\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p style=\"margin: 8px 0 0 0;padding: 0 4px\"><a style=\"color: #000;font-family: Arial,sans-serif;font-size: 14px;font-style: normal;font-weight: normal;line-height: 17px;text-decoration: none\" href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/B6-aGNIgZzT\/?utm_source=ig_embed&amp;utm_campaign=loading\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Komal Sharma Student Activist from ABVP was my junior in college as well as in school. Last night I messaged her just to confirm the fact if she was there at JNU campus or not but I asked her indirectly starting from that &#8216;I saw you today at Munirka&#8217; and &#8216;if she was wearing red white checkered shirt&#8217; and her admission to all my questions (which were my urges to confirm her presence there at the campus) with the following audio in which she says &#8216;Didi, please kisiko matt batana&#8217; is the legal evidence that she is the same person as in the pictures that were leaked yesterday confirming the fact that she was the girl with the iron stick in the &#8220;unidentified mobs&#8221;. I screen recorded her audio and chat as her Instagram account is no longer found. Share this as much as you can. #goonsofabvp @reallyswara @umar_khalid87 @youthkiawaaz @kanhaiyakumar @ravishndtv @peeinghuman @unbhakt @akashbanerjee.in @mallikadua @anuragkashyap10 @vidushak<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #c9c8cd;font-family: Arial,sans-serif;font-size: 14px;line-height: 17px;margin-bottom: 0;margin-top: 8px;overflow: hidden;padding: 8px 0 7px;text-align: center\">A post shared by <a style=\"color: #c9c8cd;font-family: Arial,sans-serif;font-size: 14px;font-style: normal;font-weight: normal;line-height: 17px\" href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/anujathakur30\/?utm_source=ig_embed&amp;utm_campaign=loading\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Anuja Thakur<\/a> (@anujathakur30) on Jan 6, 2020 at 2:38am PST<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>In her detailed post, Thakur wrote, &#8220;<em>Komal Sharma Student Activist from ABVP was my junior in college as well as in school. Last night I messaged her just to confirm the fact if she was there at JNU campus or not but I asked her indirectly starting from that &#8216;I saw you today at Munirka&#8217; and &#8216;if she was wearing red white checkered shirt&#8217; and her admission to all my questions (which were my urges to confirm her presence there at the campus) with the following audio in which she says &#8216;Didi, please kisiko matt batana&#8217; is the legal evidence that she is the same person as in the pictures that were leaked yesterday confirming the fact that she was the girl with the iron stick in the &#8220;unidentified mobs&#8221;. I screen recorded her audio and chat as her Instagram account is no longer found.<\/em>&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The video of the conversation can be seen below.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Alleged conversation of Anuja Thakur with Komal Sharma\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/383972769?dnt=1&amp;app_id=122963\" width=\"493\" height=\"1000\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; fullscreen; picture-in-picture; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Speaking with Alt News, Thakur reiterated that she interacted with Sharma from her Instagram account.<\/p>\n<p>Apoorv Thakur, brother of Anuja Thakur, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/apoorvthakur1\/posts\/10158088715561340\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">posted<\/a> the same on Facebook. In his post, he shared an additional screenshot which shows Sharma responding to Anuja Thakur&#8217;s question as to why she has become a topic of conversation on social media. In her response, Sharma sent the viral picture alleged to be hers.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-55921\" src=\"http:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2020\/01\/WhatsApp-Image-2020-01-10-at-02.37.12-505x1024.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"505\" height=\"1024\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2020\/01\/WhatsApp-Image-2020-01-10-at-02.37.12-505x1024.jpeg 505w, https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2020\/01\/WhatsApp-Image-2020-01-10-at-02.37.12-148x300.jpeg 148w, https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2020\/01\/WhatsApp-Image-2020-01-10-at-02.37.12.jpeg 540w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 505px) 100vw, 505px\" \/><\/p>\n<h2>Tracking the identity of &#8217;26_saravashisth&#8217;<\/h2>\n<p>Alt News was able to independently confirm that the Instagram account seen in the video is of ABVP activist Komal Sharma. But &#8216;@26_Saravashisth&#8217; is either deactivated or deleted at the moment. However, we were able to find an archived <a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20200106044228\/https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/26_saravashisth\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">version<\/a> of the profile. Below, we have compared a screenshot of the Instagram handle and profile picture seen in the video with a screenshot of the archived version.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-55916 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2020\/01\/Komal-Insta.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1996\" height=\"620\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2020\/01\/Komal-Insta.jpg 1996w, https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2020\/01\/Komal-Insta-300x93.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2020\/01\/Komal-Insta-1024x318.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2020\/01\/Komal-Insta-768x239.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2020\/01\/Komal-Insta-1536x477.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2020\/01\/Komal-Insta-990x308.jpg 990w, https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2020\/01\/Komal-Insta-1320x410.jpg 1320w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1996px) 100vw, 1996px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Sharma&#8217;s Facebook profile which goes by the name &#8216;Komal Sharma ABVP&#8217; is also <a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20200105193156\/https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/people\/Komal-Sharma-Abvp\/100008692596834\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">inaccessible<\/a> at the moment. Although, her old Facebook <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharma.komal.712\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">profile<\/a> and a barely active Twitter <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/saravashisth\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">handle<\/a> (Sara Vashisth) which share the name given on her Instagram account confirm her identity. Both the accounts existed at least a year ago and have an image of Komal Sharma in the profile picture. In the case of her Facebook profile, the profile picture dates back to July 2017.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-56026 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2020\/01\/komal.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"2254\" height=\"871\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2020\/01\/komal.png 2254w, https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2020\/01\/komal-300x116.png 300w, https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2020\/01\/komal-1024x396.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2020\/01\/komal-768x297.png 768w, https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2020\/01\/komal-1536x594.png 1536w, https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2020\/01\/komal-2048x791.png 2048w, https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2020\/01\/komal-990x383.png 990w, https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2020\/01\/komal-1320x510.png 1320w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2254px) 100vw, 2254px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>We located two more accounts of Sharma &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20200110123108\/https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/login\/?next=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.facebook.com%2Fsara.vashisth.1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Facebook<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20200110123528\/https:\/\/twitter.com\/vashisth_sara\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Twitter<\/a> &#8211; where she refers to herself as &#8216;Sara Vashisth&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>Komal Sharma had also <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/saravashisth\/status\/1207235580746092547\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">tweeted<\/a> in support of ABVP member Bharat Sharma who was caught on camera kicking a person. This tweet was made on December 18, 2019. <em>&#8220;I support you bhai. Well done. You are a true brother. I am proud of you. For protecting me that day from those goons of the left,&#8221; <\/em>she wrote. Now, this account too is deleted or deactivated. An <a href=\"http:\/\/archive.is\/FpzH9\">archived<\/a> version of the tweet can be seen here.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-56238\" src=\"http:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2020\/01\/2020-01-12-10_24_10-26_saravashisth-on-Twitter_-_I-support-you-bhai-.-Well-done-.-You-are-a-true-bro.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"639\" height=\"678\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2020\/01\/2020-01-12-10_24_10-26_saravashisth-on-Twitter_-_I-support-you-bhai-.-Well-done-.-You-are-a-true-bro.png 639w, https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2020\/01\/2020-01-12-10_24_10-26_saravashisth-on-Twitter_-_I-support-you-bhai-.-Well-done-.-You-are-a-true-bro-283x300.png 283w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 639px) 100vw, 639px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Based on multiple corroborations, Alt News was able to establish that ABVP activist Komal Sharma was caught on camera in the viral video of masked individuals inside JNU campus.<\/p>\n<p><strong>[Update: After this report, Komal Sharma&#8217;s Twitter account was deactivated or deleted. Hence, a screenshot of the tweet was added later in the report in place of the embedded tweet.]<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Late in the evening of January 5, a mob wielding sticks and iron rods stormed hostels of Jawaharlal Nehru University, Delhi. Most individuals who were a part of the mob had their faces covered. Soon after, videos and images of the incident began doing the rounds on social media. 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