Indian top court refuses to intervene in student leader’s arrest

A circular has also been issued to airports with the details of these students to ensure that none of them leave the country.

Indian students wave an Indian flag and shout slogans during a protest at the Jawaharlal Nehru University against the arrest of a student union leader in New Delhi, India, Thursday, Feb. 18, 2016.

The student’s wing of Bihar’s ruling RJD also extended its support to the student bodies of the left parties. An apex court bench of Justice J.Chelameswar and Justice Abhay Manohar Sapre, while transferring Kanhaiya’s petition, asked the high court to hear it expeditiously.

They were led by, among others, Vikram Chauhan, who has been accused of attacking journalists and JNU students at the Patiala House court on Monday and causing more disturbances there on Wednesday.

Mr Kumar, who is in judicial custody till March 2, had approached the apex court directly seeking bail on the ground that his life was under threat in Tihar Jail.

“Lawyers of both courts are protesting against Kanhaiya”, Ramachandran said. “The way the present government has acted against students by trying to suppress dissenting voices in educational institutions should be opposed, and that is the reason why I made a decision to come here”, she added.

Kumar and his colleagues were marking the anniversary of the hanging of Afzal Guru, who was convicted of an attack on Indian parliament in 2001. Sir, the situation becomes shameful and unfortunate when the fourth estate of the democracy, the media which connects people gets thrashed inside our court premises.

Meanwhile, police officials said they have received a complaint in this regard and the matter is being looked into. Kanhaiya Kumar, he was arrested without any valid reason and without disclosing to him even grounds of arrest.

In Kolkata, police were on alert as two groups of students held rival rallies in the Jadavpur University campus. He was arrested on February 12 on sedition charges following a controversial event on the JNU campus where anti-India slogans were allegedly raised. “We are here to take the spirit of protest across to every single college and university in the country”, National General Secretary of AISF Vishwajeet Kumar, one of the organising members, said. The students believe that if they do not raise voice against what is going on, they will have to face negative repercussions.