CPI(M) leader and parliamentarian M B Rajesh on Wednesday took to Facebook to take a dig at the Bharatiya Janata Party following media reports that the Delhi Police Special Branch’s report on the JNU issue, which was submitted to the Union Home Ministry, makes no mention of JNUSU president Kanhaiya Kumar being present at the Afzal Guru event organised on the campus.
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On Wednesday, Kanhaiya was produced before the court, after the expiry of his police custody remand, amidst tight security and sloganeering by lawyers inside the court premises.
The lawyers came back to the apex court at 4 pm and confirmed reports that Kanhaiya was assaulted and said that the police failed to control the situation or contain the violence.
Meanwhile, the Supreme Court will also hear a plea by lawyer RP Luthra objecting to Delhi Police Commissioner BS Bassi’s statement that they will not oppose any plea for bail by JNUSU president Kanhaiya Kumar, who is accused of sedition.
Now that questions are being raised against Centre’s vendetta against JNU students, The Times of India in its report said the “veiled persons shouting anti national slogans” during the protest sparked off government action, without identifying who they are. “I think that “goondas” in garb of being lawyers have taken over Patiala House Court with the active connivance of the Delhi Police and this is being repeated day after day”. When I was brought to the court, a mob attacked me.
Under Article 32, a citizen can move the Supreme Court for enforcing his fundamental rights. Late in the evening, he was taken to Tihar jail where he will be lodged under heavy security. “This is a matter of concern as this phenomenon is increasingly been seen in sensational cases”, Justice Chelameswar said. We are not taking any sides or going into merits, but the atmosphere in and around a courtroom can not be vitiated like this.
The Supreme Court was informed by senior advocate Indira Jaising that Kanhaiya Kumar was attacked in the court premises.
Eight top universities in the United Kingdom including Oxford and Cambridge today came out in support of JNU, strongly criticising the police action in its campus as a “direct attack on dissent and debate”.
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A bail hearing for a student leader arrested for sedition descended into chaos on Wednesday as protesting lawyers chanting pro-government slogans barged into a courthouse compound.
