After Delhi Police identified the students seen in the footage chanting ‘anti-national’ slogans at the Jawaharlal Nehru University, the Delhi Police on Wednesday launched inter-state raids to get hold of the culprits.
Raids are being conducted in Delhi, UP, Bihar, Maharashtra and Jammu and Kashmir.
The Delhi Police have sought help from their counterparts in these states to trace the absconding students. The family members, relatives, friends and colleagues of the students are also being interrogated. Police have already put their mobile phones under surveillance while airports across India have been alerted to monitor movements of the absconding students.
Meanwhile, Delhi Police Commissioner B S Bassi reached the Prime Minister’s Office (PMO) on Wednesday morning to brief the Union Cabinet about the current state of unrest at the JNU.
In a report submitted to the Ministry of Home Affairs on its crackdown on a group of protesting JNU students on February 9, the Delhi Police on Tuesday said that Democratic Students Union (DSU) activists led by Umar Khalid raised anti-national slogans on that day. However, the report said that Kanhaiya Kumar didn’t raise anti-national slogans but was just standing with DSU activists. Umar Khalid has been absconding since then. Faced with mounting criticism for slapping sedition charges on Kanhaiya Kumar, Bassi, on Wednesday, asserted there was “adequate evidence” against him.
Bassi further said there was no question of giving clean chit to the JNUSU president.
“Not at all,” he said when asked whether there was no clean chit to Kumar, who was arrested last week on sedition charges. Police claimed he had raised anti-India slogans at an event in the university.