Security for Kanhaiya Kumar, Umar up following threats

Delhi Police has beefed up the security of JNUSU president Kanhaiya Kumar and Umar Khalid following the recovery of a letter threatening to behead the two and a gun in a bus operating between Kashmere Gate ISBT and the varsity’s campus. A case has been registered under Arms’ Act at Tilak Marg police station.  

The university students who have been agitating ever since they were arrested in a sedition case over an event on campus, meanwhile, demanded that the JNU administration lodge a police complaint against various individuals who have been issuing threats to Kumar and others. A country-made pistol and a threat letter against Kumar were recovered from the bus, numbered 605, that plies between Vasant Vihar and Old Delhi railway stations and it runs inside the JNU campus until 1 pm, said police. According to the police, the letter, signed by one Anil Jaani, spoke of rewards for whoever beheads Kumar and Khalid, who along with another PhD scholar Anirban Bhattacharya, were jailed for sedition. The university has also been alerted about the threat.