The brutality unleashed by the police on protesting students near Jantar Mantar is deeply disturbing. Yet, for many of us, it painfully revives the memories of an even darker chapter—the horrific assault on students at Jamia Millia Islamia and Aligarh Muslim University in December 2019. Inside university campuses, students were chased, mercilessly beaten, and subjected to violence that seemed intended not merely to disperse a protest, but to break their bodies and spirits. Those haunting images remain etched in our collective memory. To add to the injustice, the committee constituted to investigate the incident eventually gave the police a clean chit, leaving countless students and citizens feeling that accountability had once again been denied. A democracy cannot thrive when students are treated as enemies for raising their voices. Campuses should be places of learning and debate—not sites of fear and brutality.