Meanwhile, a panel of Delhi High Court judges submitted its report in Supreme Court on Patiala House Court violence while the Delhi Police will submit its action taken report on February 19.
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Police had arrested Kumar on 12 February, accusing him of making anti-India remarks at the event organised by a Leftist students’ union to protest against the hanging of Parliament attack convict Afzal Guru.
The court had said that the security of Kanhaiya Kumar and those who were present in the court room should be 100 percent fool proof, indicating that if Delhi Police can’t do it, then it may seek other options.
It was claimed that despite the Supreme Court’s clear directives, some lawyers and anti-social elements attacked journalists and JNU Student Union President Kanhaiya in Patiala House Court of Delhi.
The lawyers also thrashed some journalists and students and resorted to stone pelting.
The JNU students are on strike demanding release of JNUSU president Kanhaiya Kumar.
The Apex Court has accepted his contention and agreed to hear his plea on Friday. They carried flowers as a sign of peace, Indian flags and placards saying, “Free Speech under attack” and “Just because I don’t agree, doesn’t mean I am an anti-national”.
Delhi Police on Thursday summoned BJP MLA OP Sharma who had allegedly beaten up a CPI worker outside Patiala House Court to appear before them today.
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As the JNU row escalated, he said pressing of “very serious sedition charges against students, for what might often be overenthusiastic activism in campus, reflected a highly ineffective university administration and overzealous police action”.
