Appearing for former student ND Jaiprakash, senior counsel Indira Jaisinh mentioned the matter before the bench of Chief Justice TS Thakur and said that there was a threat to the life of Kanhaiya Kumar – the JNU students’ union president, who has been charged with sedition.
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In a blog, Bharatiya Janata Party president Amit Shah attacked Congress vice president Rahul Gandhi, accusing him of “supporting forces inimical to India’s interests”.
While the first case specifically relates to the scuffle that took place inside the premises of the court, the second was registered for the brawl between the BJP MLA and CPI activist Ameeque Jamai outside Gate number 2 of the court.
Kumar was arrested on Friday for raising “anti-India” slogans at an event organised by students on the JNU campus to commemorate the death of Parliament attack convict Afzal Guru, who was executed in 2013.
Delhi Police Commissioner B.S. Bassi said on Monday that Kanhaiya Kumar had joined the meeting on the campus where anti-national slogans were raised and he also raised slogans.
Jaiprakash, who was a councillor in the JNUSU in 1973, told IANS that “what had happened yesterday at Patiala House Court is totally unacceptable and is contempt of court”.
The Foreign Correspondent’s Club on Tuesday condemned the attack on journalists by lawyers in the Patiala House court complex terming it as an attempt to “intimidate” the media from doing its job. No reasons were assigned.
The Delhi High Court today dismissed a petition seeking an order for an inquiry by the National Investigation Agency into student protests in Jawaharlal Nehru University.
In another development, Opposition parties sought clarification from Prime Minister Narendra Modi over the on-going protests at JNU.
“Criminals are opting for different types of ways like social media to commit crime these days, so the police will have to be more vigilant and develop innovative techniques to deal with them”, he said.
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He said the Congress has a stellar record in strengthening the integrity of the country. They also reportedly snatched the phones of reporters present and ordered them to leave the courtroom, injuring at least two journalists.
