Protest at JNU
New Delhi, Feb 12: Jawaharlal Nehru University Students’ Union president Kanhaiya Kumar, arrested in a case of sedition and criminal conspiracy for holding an anti-national event on the university premises, was Friday remanded in three-day police custody by a Delhi court.
The police told the court that Kanhaiya was also required to be interrogated for the purpose of identification of other accused seen shouting “anti-national” slogans during the event organised on the JNU campus February 9.
The police also placed on record a CD of the event that the judge played inside the court room on a computer.
Kanhaiya told the court that he was neither shouting any slogan nor saying anything against the 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.
He told the court that he did not endorse the slogans against India in any manner and has full faith in the Constitution of the country. “I dissociate myself from the slogans that were shouted in the event. I have full faith in the Constitution of the country,” Kanhaiya told the court. PTI