Earlier this afternoon, the person began shooting at students near New Delhi’s Jamia university. A report from Scroll noted that he identified himself as Rambhakt Gopal before the police arrested him.
— ANI (@ANI) January 30, 2020 Live videos posted by the accused showed him walking around protestors — who were showing dissent against India’s controversial Citizen Amendment Act (CAA) law — near the incident’s venue. He also posted messages in Hindi saying he’s the only Hindu at the venue and there are no “Hindu media” around. Facebook said in a statement that the company has removed any content that praises or supports gunman: After India passed the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) — a law that grants citizenship to non-Muslim refugees from select neighboring countries —in December, this is the second attack on students this year. Earlier this month, masked goons attacked students in New Delhi Jawaharlal Nehru University. Later, the Indian court asked WhatsApp, Facebook, and Google to preserve data related to the incident. The accused’s other posts included talking about taking revenge on a killing of a right-wing activist Chandan Gupta in 2018. The accused’s profile also had plenty of photos with firearms and posts related to Hinduism. Soon after the incident, plenty of people were congratulating him for his ‘deed’ through comments on these posts. Facebook has now taken down all these posts and his profile. Last year, Facebook took down the profile of El Paso shooting’s suspect, shortly after the incident. We’ve reached out to Facebook for more details on the incident, and we’ll update the story once we’ll hear back.
