Afzal Guru row: Cops reach JNU, interrogate staff, students
19 Jun 2016 5:17 AM IST
According to the sources, in the last few days some staff members and students were grilled about the event. “Some of the eye-witnesses of the event were also called for questioning. Few of the persons do not belong to JNU, rather they are from different universities in Delhi, but were part of the event. Many of those who have been questioned recently hails from Jammu and Kashmir,” the source added.
The source further added that in the near future some of the students who were spotted in the event could be booked for sedation. “Their names might be added in the FIR and relevant action like arrest or detention could be done in the near future,” said the source.
It is important to mention that the students were identified with the help of the video clip of the event which was declared authentic by the CBI forensic lab, said a source adding the voice samples of the suspects will also be taken to match the report with the CBI forensic lab report.
Among others who were questioned were the ones who had initially sanctioned permission for the event and given it clearance. The questionings were conducted in the past two weeks. The Special Cell also wrote a series of letters to JNU authorities asking them to cooperate in the investigation, the source said.
The raw video footage of the controversial February 9 JNU event was to be “authenticated” by the CBI forensic lab earlier in June. Earlier, Delhi Police had sent four video clips of the event to Gandhinagar-based Central Forensic Science Laboratory (CFSL) which in its report, in May, had said that they were genuine.
However, a Delhi government-ordered probe into a set of seven video clippings of the controversial event where the videos were sent to the Hyderabad-based Truth Labs, had found two clips to be manipulated while others as genuine.
Kanhaiya, Umar Khalid and Anirban Bhattacharya were arrested in February and later granted bail in the case, which is now being probed by Delhi Police’s anti-terrorism unit Special Cell.
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