Geelani was referred to as to the police station on Monday night time the place he was detained and questioned for a number of hours, and later arrested. A magistrate then went to Chanakyapuri Police Station, about 7 kms away from Patiala House Court, for the hearing when police said Geelani was not required for any further custodial interrogation so he be remanded to judicial custody.
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“I condemn provocative anti-India slogans and terror ideology”. I can not get anyone arrested as I don’t recognise anybody. “There was an open entry and not restricted by any invitation card”, Mr. Tamta had submitted. Whatever I know I have told them already since I was in custody for past one day.
While Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh and HRD Minister Smruti Irani warned the anti-national sloganeers of Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) in unison, today, Delhi Police registered a sedition case against SAR Geelani for Wednesday’s incident in the press club, here.
He cautioned that if the SAR Geelani and other arrested people are not released forthwith and the harassment of the Kashmiri students does not stop, we will call for protest in Kashmir against that and it will have serious consequences.
On February 10, a group allegedly shouted slogans hailing Guru at the Delhi Press Club, following which the police registered a case of sedition, criminal conspiracy and unlawful assembly against Geelani and unnamed persons.
During the torch rally brought from JU campus to Gol Park in South Kolkata by students of all faculties of the university, slogans like “Afzal bole azadi, Geelani bole azadi” and “Chhinke lenge azadi” were raised. Some also raised slogans like ” Le kar rahenge aazaadi (we are determined to secure our freedom)”, in a reference to Jammu and Kashmir.
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Following registration of the FIR, the police questioned for two consecutive days DU professor Ali Javed, a Press Club member who had booked the hall for the event.
