Emergency teams attend to injured protesters at RML Hospital on Monday. (Express photo by Tabshir shams)CJP’s Parliament march neet-protest-rml-hospital-injured-Delhi police lathichargeRavi, 24, an e-rickshaw driver from Muzaffarnagar, is in ICU at RML Hospital with severe head injuries and brain bleed after the police rained blows during a lathicharge at Sansad Marg, where protesters had gathered for the “Sansad chalo” march against the NEET exam cancellations. He is among the over 100 protesters, who were brought to Ram Manohar Lohia (RML) Hospital through the afternoon on Monday with a range of major and minor injuries, most of them in the head and limbs.His brother, Shyam, told The Indian Express, “The police started firing tear gas. We moved back a little. Then they started a lathicharge. One policeman started hitting Ravi on the head multiple times, then he went down. We somehow managed to get him here,” says Shyam, adding how Ravi had decided to join the protest a week ago because he was fed up with the education system and chose to stand by students. “Ravi received multiple blows on his head, which caused intracranial bleeding. He was unresponsive when he was brought here and his vitals were dropping,” said the on-duty head superintendent of nursing at RML Hospital.Read | Why government is talking to CJP, but stopping short of concessionsTill 5.30 pm, hospital sources said, emergency teams had attended to around 100 people injured in the protest, 90 protesters and 10 policemen. Four protesters were admitted to ICU till then. As teargas and lathicharge were seen across protest sites — stretching from Gole Dak Khana near Connaught Place in the northwest, through Jantar Mantar, to India Gate in the southeast — many tripped and fell over during a crowd surge. As its emergency was overwhelmed, RML stopped taking in patients. Many of the injured were then taken to Lady Hardinge Hospital.RML Hospital officials said most of the patients required stitches on their head, tetanus injections and wound-dressing. “They have been hit in the head or in their limbs. Those who needed further investigation were moved from the Emergency for CT Scan, X-Ray and other tests. A lot of patients had to be moved to the red zone, where we have additional medical facilities and equipment. A few patients have been transferred to the ICU as well. Most of the patients are young,” said sources. Some of the patients, according to them, would need immediate orthopaedic surgeries. Delhi Police personnel disperse the protesters as they attempt to march towards the House, at Parliament Street, on Monday. (Express photo by Praveen Khanna)Rishi Raj Singh, 21, from Rajasthan was sitting with his friends outside the emergency ward. With stitches on his head, he said, “These things are expected when you fight with power.” Twenty-two-year old Vishal from Haryana lay on a stretcher in the emergency ward, writhing in pain with a severely bruised leg and waiting for an X-Ray. “I was in Jantar Mantar near the stage area when the police started their lathicharge without warning,” he says.Also Read | In CJP protest, a reckoning with politics for the apolitical IndianAzam Khan from Delhi’s Shadipur, whose friend Akhlaq was in the ICU, said, “We were standing near Ashoka Road and the police started lathi charge without warning. Akhlaq fell on the road and a mob ran amok. He was trampled upon and lay there, face down for half-an-hour before I could find him. He was unresponsive,” he says. He got Akhlaq to RML in an autorickshaw.Story continues below this adChanchal Bora, 35, who came all the way from Uttarakhand to ensure his two-and-half-year-old daughter did not become a victim of the educational system when she grew up, nursed a badly bruised back. “I’ve been in Delhi for days. I came to ask for Dharmendra Pradhan’s resignation. In return what did I get from the government? I got lathi charged. They think they can stop the youth by using tear gas and lathis. They’re wrong,” he said. Despite his own injuries, Chanchal helped an injured man inside a Delhi police vehicle, who was trying to wrap a handkerchief around his bleeding head with one hand and holding a red rose in another.A few police personnel were also admitted to the emergency ward. “I was hit in the head by a stone when I was standing near Sansad Marg,” said a policeman without disclosing his name.Many lives were also saved thanks to volunteers like Anshul, 22, who helped ferry several injured people to hospital. Waiting at the main gate of RML Hospital with his friends and his mother, who had accompanied him to the protest, he said, “I helped carry more than 30 people off the ground, and with my friend’s help, we got them into whatever vehicle we could find, be it private cars, ambulances and sent them to hospital. It was terrifying, seeing people crumble to the ground,” he said.At Tolstoy Marg, bystanders left plastic water bottles on the pavement for the protesters, so that they could splash it across their faces to get some relief from teargas.Nirbhay Thakur is a Senior Correspondent with The Indian Express who primarily covers district courts in Delhi and has reported on the trials of many high-profile cases since 2023. Professional Background Education: Nirbhay is an economics graduate from Delhi University. Beats: His reporting spans the trial courts, and he occasionally interviews ambassadors and has a keen interest in doing data stories. Specializations: He has a specific interest in data stories related to courts. Core Strength: Nirbhay is known for tracking long-running legal sagas and providing meticulous updates on high-profile criminal trials. Recent notable articles In 2025, he has written long form articles and two investigations. Along with breaking many court stories, he has also done various exclusive stories. 1) A long form on Surender Koli, accused in the Nithari serial killings of 2006. He was acquitted after spending 2 decades in jail. was a branded man. Deemed the “cannibal" who allegedly lured children to his employer’s house in Noida, murdered them, and “ate their flesh” – his actions cited were cited as evidence of human depravity at its worst. However, the SC acquitted him finding various lapses in the investigation. The Indian Express spoke to his lawyers and traced the 2 decades journey. 2) For decades, the Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) has been at the forefront of the Government’s national rankings, placed at No. 2 over the past two years alone. It has also been the crucible of campus activism, its protests often spilling into national debates, its student leaders going on to become the faces and voices of political parties of all hues and thoughts. The Indian Express looked at all court cases spanning over two decades and did an investigation. 3) Investigation on the 700 Delhi riots cases. The Indian Express found that in 17 of 93 acquittals (which amounted to 85% of the decided cases) in Delhi riots cases, courts red-flag ‘fabricated’ evidence and pulled up the police. Signature Style Nirbhay’s writing is characterized by its procedural depth. He excels at summarizing 400-page chargesheets and complex court orders into digestible news for the general public. X (Twitter): @Nirbhaya99 ... Read MoreStay updated with the latest - Click here to follow us on InstagramTags:CJP ProtestDelhi Police