4 persons try to ‘attack’ Kanhaiya

Four persons on Tuesday allegedly tried to attack JNUSU president Kanhaiya Kumar in separate instances during a march here led by him demanding release of JNU students Umar Khalid and Anirban Bhattacharya. While three persons hurled abuses at Kumar during his speech near Parliament Street police station and were whisked away by the police who perceived threat in connection with the matter, one managed to climb the truck over which Kumar was standing while addressing the gathering. The moment the persons started shouting on Kanhaiya over his comments on security forces, the JNU students formed a human chain and raised an alarm. The fourth man managed to break the chain but he too was whisked away by police by the time he could reach Kumar. “Four persons have been put under preventive detention in view of law and order issues,” a senior police official said. While one of the four turned out to be a barber, another was a steward at a hotel. One was an insurance agent and the other a car dealer, a police official, said adding that they were released later in the evening.