While the students did not meet the Vice Chancellor, JNUSU submitted a memorandum to him, appealing to him to raise the matter with police and “get” the sedition charges dropped against them.
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Ashutosh had said that the students were in Delhi itself and that the decision to return on Sunday evening had been taken individually and not collectively.
While refusing to grant protection from arrest, the court asked both petitioners to secretly give details of the date, place and time where they will surrender, to the court and senior police officials will ensure their safety. “You file an appropriate petition and we will consider it”, a bench comprising Justice J Chelameswar and Justice A M Sapre said after a plea for contempt action against these lawyers was mentioned before it.
“All of them are here to join the movement against branding of the Varsity as a den of anti-nationals”.
Mehra said, “they have crossed the “laxman rekha” and I will not allow this unless the court passes an order. We demand an enquiry into the same and the teachers supporting these students should also be penalised by the university”, Saurabh Kumar Sharma, Joint Secretary of JNUSU, and the lone ABVP member said during a press meet.
Kanhaiya Kumar, who has moved the Delhi High Court for bail, alleged that a doctored video, which seeks to superimpose utterances that may have been made elsewhere by others, was being circulated to falsely implicate him in the case. “I raised this issue and told them why it was cancelled”, he added.
The five students who were accused of raising anti national slogans, came back to Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) last night.
Indian students shout slogans during a protest in New Delhi, India, Tuesday, Feb. 23, 2016. “If Kanhaiya Kumar comes out on bail, he is bound to influence investigation and witnesses that is why we have opposed his bail”, said Bassi.
The Delhi High Court will continue hearing the pleas filed by Umar Khalid and Anirban Bhattacharya on Wednesday.
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In the video broadcast on the English news channel this evening, the lawyers can be seen claiming that they also thrashed Kanhaiya for around three hours while he was in police custody and said he wet his trousers during the beating.
