Mumbai: Pakistani-American terrorist David Coleman Headley Friday said al-Qaeda was in touch with him to attack Delhi’s National Defence College (NDC) and unravelled the plot by Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) and Pakistan spy agency ISI to target Mumbai airport, Bhabha Atomic Research Centre (BARC) and the naval air station here. STUDENT LEADER’S DEFENCE Kumar told the court that he was neither shouting any slogan nor saying anything against integrity of the country and said he had rushed to the spot only to prevent a clash between ABVP workers and students organising the event.
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A group of students on Tuesday held an event on the JNU campus and allegedly shouted slogans against the government and the country over the hanging of Parliament attack convict Afzal Guru in 2013.
The students said their parents are asking them to quit the university in view of the “vitiating atmosphere” at Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU).
The magistrate allowed the police Kumar’s custody for three days.
Police also placed on record a CD of the event which the judge played inside the court room on a computer.
Last month a young scholar from India’s lowest Dalit caste committed suicide, sparking protests over social discrimination after he was suspended from Hyderabad University for allegedly assaulting the head of the student wing of Modi’s party.
“I disassociate myself with the sloganeering”.
He said interrogation of Delhi University teacher S.A.R. Geelani just because he participated in a media discussion and expressed some opinion on Afzal Guru clearly smacks of a “fascist onslaught” by the government.
Meanwhile, on the sidelines of a function here, Home Minister Rajnath Singh said the Left leaders had met him to protest against the arrest of JNU students union president and he told them that “no question of harassment of students, but the guilty will not be spared”. At IIT Madras, a letter from the Human Resource Development ministry based on an “anonymous” complaint got the Ambedkar Study Circle banned.
The chairmen of both factions of Hurriyat Conference Friday condemned the arrest of JNU student union president and demanded his immediate release. Police on campus, arrests and picking up students from hostels.
Accompanied by Delhi Congress president Ajay Maken, senior Congress leader Anand Sharma, CPI(M) general secretary Sitaram Yechuri and CPI leader D Raja, Rahul not only joined the protest but made a fiery speech as did other leaders too.
The JNU administration has already instituted a “disciplinary” enquiry as to how the event took place despite withdrawal of permission and said it will wait for the probe report before taking any further action.
With the might of the State against it, the faculty and students on the JNU campus feel like they are under siege. It said its members “hold no brief for those who raised objectionable slogans”.
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Police detained around 200 members of the group for violating prohibitory orders.
