According to Hindustan Times news, a day after Delhi police commissioner BS Bassi told Hindustan Times that the arrested JNU student’s union leader Kanhaiya Kumar was not assaulted in the Patiala House court by rampaging lawyers, a medical report showed signs of injury on his face and feet.
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In a statement here, Gogoi said assault on the JNU general secretary while he was being taken by police for production before the court, by the BJP-backed lawyers’ gang exposed the intolerant attitude of the ruling party in the Centre and the design of the RSS-BJP to saffronise the education institutions in the country.
Kanhaiya Kumar, arrested a week ago on charges of shouting anti-India slogans, moved the Delhi High Court after the Supreme Court refused to entertain his bail plea.
Authorities arrested Kumar on February after he allegedly shouted anti-Indian remarks at a rally “to commemorate the anniversary of the execution of a Kashmiri separatist over his role in an attack on the Indian parliament in 2001”.
Kumar said that the team would remain at the FCI police station for the “time being” and will be put on duty only in the event of any threat or intimidation to Kanhaiya Kumar’s family or house.
Gandhi said Kumar’s arrest for sedition and the violence witnessed at the Patiala House Courts here on Monday and Wednesday had sent out “bad signals” about India and damaged its global image.
Police later dispersed the protestors, the DCP said, adding no one was injured in the incident and the situation was normal now. Demonstrators affiliated with Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s BJP demanded harsh action against Kumar and others who they accused of being anti-Indian.
The eight signatories of the statement appealed to the Vice Chancellor of JNU to protect members of the university community as well as the freedom of expression and dissent.
But on Friday the court kicked the hearing to the lower Delhi High Court, where it was then postponed.
In Patna, similar protests led to clashes between activists of the All India Students Federation (AISF) and Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad (ABVP), the RSS student wing.
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In his writ petition, Kanhaiya Kumar said he was an innocent person, and his presumption of innocence is sacrosanct.
