JNUSU President Kanhaiya Kumar Arrested On Sedition Charges And Remanded To Police Custody

By Countercurrents.org

12 February, 2016
Countercurrents.org

Kanhaiya Kumar, president of Jawaharlal Nehru University's students union was arrested in a case of sedition and criminal conspiracy. He was remanded to three-day police custody by a Delhi Metropolitan Magistrate. The police sought his custodial interrogation for five days to ascertain the alleged links of the accused persons. The police also placed on record a CD of the event, which the judge played inside the court room on a computer.

Kanhaiya Kumar was arrested allegedly for raising anti-India slogans at an event organised by the students to commemorate the hanging of Parliament attack convict Afzal Guru, who was hanged in Tihar Jail on February 9, 2014.

He was arrested by the Vasant Kunj north police in south Delhi. Earlier on Thursday, police took suo-moto cognizance and registered an FIR against unknown students.

Kanhaiya told the court that he was neither shouting any slogan nor saying anything against integrity of the country and said he had rushed to the spot only to prevent a clash between ABVP workers and students organising the event. He claimed in the court that this was a politically-motivated case and he was being framed by the police as he had defeated the ABVP candidate in the presidential elections of the JNU students’ union (JNUSU).

Kanhaiya Kumar said in a Facebook post said yesterday,

Friends, JNU is still best University of this country however ABVP/RSS and Swamy are doing their best to malign it. It is very shameful that the sanghi lumpens are trying to repeat the same thing which they have done in University of Hyderabad but we want to tell them we will not loose any ‪#‎Rohith‬ We will fight for democracy, for our constitution and the equal nation for all. In the name of Afzal Guru, ABVP is trying to divert all the issues to save the failure of the Central Govt.