New Delhi: Jawaharlal Nehru University Students' Union president Kanhaiya Kumar, arrested and booked for sedition, was not responsible for organising the programme in support of hanged Parliament attack convict Afzal Guru, according to a Delhi Police Special Branch report submitted to the Ministry of Home Affairs.
CNN-IBN has accessed the four-page report submitted by Delhi police which mentions that Democratic Students Union (DSU) activists led by Umar Khalid raised anti-national slogans after they were denied to broadcast a pro-Afzal Guru documentary on February 9 in the JNU. Umar Khalid has been absconding after the incident.
It was earlier reported in some sections that Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarathi Parishad (ABVP) supporters had alerted JNU authorities about such an event but the Delhi Police report reveals that it was an officer of special branch (Intelligence Unit) of Delhi Police at the university saw a poster and alerted the authorities.
Describing the sequence of events, the report states that at 5 PM on February 9 there was a protest by 80-90 students including those from DSU and students of some Left organisations. The report mentions Umar Khalid was leading the entire event. DSU and other Left supported organisations were trying to do some unwanted activity in JNU in the garb of cultural evening.
JNU authorities were timely alerted by Delhi Police and permission to organise the event was denied to the student group. The decision of cancellation of programme was passed on to student group through JNU security authorities. ABVP students had also some idea about the cancellation and they also started to mobilise around the proposed programme venue, according to the report.
Anti-India slogans were raised during the event.
The report also mentions the past activities of DSU. Delhi Police Special Branch had been keeping an eye on DSU activities for the last few months and has found that the group mourned Afzal Guru's death and celebrated the killing of Central Reserve Police Force personnel in anti-Naxal operations.
Delhi's Patiala House Court had on Monday extended the police custody of Kanhaiya Kumar till Wednesday. According to sources, police argued that they wanted the extension of Kanhaiya Kumar so that they could question further question him.
Kanhaiya was arrested on February 12 in connection with a case of sedition and criminal conspiracy over an event at the prestigious university against hanging of Parliament attack convict Afzal Guru. The same day, he was remanded to three-day police custody by a Delhi court after the police said his and five other absconding accused's alleged links with terrorist groups were being probed.
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