Kanhaiya Kumar fears threat to life, moves SC for bail

The lawyers in their report told the SC that the police had miserably failed in their duty to maintain Law and Order in the Patiala House court.

Amnesty International called for the immediate release of Kumar and S.A.R Geelani, a former Delhi University lecturer arrested on Tuesday on the same charge in connection with another event marking Guru’s death.

Responding to the allegations against Delhi Police after some journalists were roughed up inside Patiala House court, Delhi Police commissioner BS Bassi has assured journalists that they are as unsafe as everyone else in Delhi.

Speaking to CNN-IBN, Chauhan said that people from JNU initiated the violence at Patiala House court and the lawyers just acted in defence.

But police have defended their actions and say they are still searching for other JNU students who they say chanted anti-India slogans at last week’s rally.

Indian paramilitary force soldiers stand guard outside a Delhi court, before Kanhaiya Kumar, the president of the students’ union at the country’s premier Jawaharlal Nehru University is produced in New Delhi, India, Wednesday, …

Dozens of lawyers, many with links to India’s ruling nationalist party, on Wednesday attacked protesters who have been demanding the release of a university student leader arrested under colonial-era sedition laws. The footage was broadcast on February 10 evening, following which the police sent a letter to the channel’s editor and obtained the video clip in a CD the next day. “Thereafter, the Learned Metropolitan Magistrate remanded the Petitioner to judicial custody for a period of 14 days”.

Scores of Indian Youth Congress and NSUI workers were detained by police, as they attempted to march from the IYC headquarters to the Prime Minister’s Office to protest the police crackdown on JNU campus in the wake of a controversial event in the campus. Some human rights activists and most Kashmiris in the Indian-controlled portion of the region believe he was not given a fair trial. Guru has always denied plotting the attack, which was carried out by Kashmiri militants.

Both India and Pakistan claim the region of Kashmir, a divided territory between the two countries.

Before JNU students started from JNU, Shehla posted to the event page saying “15 buses in JNU have been completely filled”.